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“I know, Lucy It’s okay,” I said as I stroked her hair

“If he’d contacted her, she would have told me,” Lucy said

I nodded

“Lucy, have you been in touch with Jackie again?” Ronan asked

“Just once after we left Arizona and got to Seattle I never told her where I was, though”

I watched as Ronan pulled out his phone and dialed a number “Daisy, I need you to check an eh for Lucy to tell him the e moments passed in tense silence as aited while Ronan listened to whatever the person on the other end of the phone had to say His expression was grio through me

“Okay, Lucy, thank you That was very helpful Would you er while we finish up here?”

She looked at me and I nodded “Go on, we’re almost finished”

Her slim arms went around me and my heart clenched when she whispered, “I love you, Ethan”

Even though we hadn’t been together long, our reliance on each other as we’d fled the sa ether She’d filled a hole inside of me and I’d hoped I’d done the same for her “I love you too, Kiddo,” I said softly as I pressed a kiss against her temple

I waited until Lucy was gone before I faced Ronan “What?” I asked

“When she set up her new eular email address as a recovery email That linked her new account to her old one which made it traceable”

I closed an to make sense “So that’s how Eric found out about the library in Arizona and that we’d come here”

“Was Lucy using the library here too?” Cain asked

I nodded “Since I had Allen’s ID, I figured it was okay to use it to get a library card We’d been so cut off fro normal” I lether about the eive herself if she knew…”