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“Jesus, Meot off”

There was a long pause before Mees”

“Fucking Christ!” I yelled as I got up and began pacing the roo possible?” I shouted “The fucker raped hioddamn proof myself!”

I ed to calm myself as Memphis remained silent I suspected he and the rest of the team had likely had a similar reaction to my own

“The defense brought up Eli’s history,” Memphis murmured

I shookkid,” I whispered As a teenager, Eli had been forced to prostitute himself for money before someone had finally stepped in and put a stop to it I couldn’t even begin to fathom what it must have been like for him to have that shit thrown in his face in an open courtroom

“How is he doing?” I asked

“Not good,” was all Memphis said “That’s why he and Mav didn’t realize Caleb had taken off at first They found his phone in his room and he didn’t take his car We can’t find his nahts and we’ve searched everywhere we can think of We think he ht be headed to DC –He… he hasn’t contacted you, right?”

“No,” I iven him my number and he doesn’t knohere I live”

A fact I was cursing now The last tio at Christedwell then either, but after spending the holiday with hiin to turn around for hi hat his father had done to him

But I hadn’t had the balls to check in with hiood, since he’d become far too attached to me, but I knew that was only half the truth

“Is there any chance you can check out his old neighborhood… maybe stop by his friends’ homes and see if they’ve heard from him?”

“Yeah,” I said absently, though fro I’d learned about Caleb, there hadn’t been many friends left in his life And if Caleb had left his phone and car behind and he’d avoided taking a plane, it was because he kne easy it would have been to track his

Fuck, why the hell hadn’t I sucked it up and kept in touch with him?

“Jace,” Memphis said quietly