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How in the world had I ever thought he didn’t feel?

He didn’t respond to my words and I wondered if it was because he knehat he was asking was impossible

We sat like that for a few more precious seconds before Jace released s out,” he one

I tookup the stuff from the first aid kit and returned it to the kitchen When I was done, I went back to the bedroorabbed the blanket Jace had put around my shoulders and covered myself with it as I laid down on the bed

My exhaustion didn’t make any damned sense, but hell if I didn’t welcome the shit out of it

Chapter 5

Jace

“You bedding down for the night?” Dalton asked

“Yeah, we’re by Poole’s Island,” I said I was using the burner phone Dalton had purchased for me after I’d called him from a payphone earlier in the day to let hiht one for hi the calls The fact that no one, not even Ronan, knew about h to keep the lines of communication open with him It would come in handy in more ways than one

But as helpful as the phone was to have, it didn’t have the best reception and I wasn’t about to wasteon the internet about the attack this

“You find anything?” I asked

“I foundin the local paper, but it didn’t uys didn’t stash the bodies in the cabin or so their job”

“My guys probably ood at their jobs,” I said

Dalton snorted, then said, “No news about the shooting either Really like to kno you pulled that off”

“Can’t take credit for that one,” I said I hadn’t told Dalton the full details of the Jennings encounter, other than I’d been involved in a shooting at the man’s house and to let me know ifs wouldn’t give his na me it was bad, whatever it was It was the only explanation as to why Jennings wouldn’t want the cops finding Caleb