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“We can’t risk tipping the cops off to look at it as so more,” I said

“We can’t,” Ronan agreed “But Declan probably can He’s the one who arrested Cortano If he can find anything that shows Cortano and Jennings were still in contact in the past couple of years, he can feed that to the cops in Bethesda”

I kneho Ronan was talking about Declan Barretti was a captain in the Seattle Police Department He was also the brother-in-law of Dom Barretti, Eli’s adopted father Declan and Dom had both been present when Eli had ader

“Are you sure he won’t figure out Caleb was the one as at the Jennings’ house that day?” I asked

“I have no doubt he will figure it out,” Ronan said “But Caleb’s fa about the Barrettis, even the ones who are a Barretti by law and not blood, you don’t fuck with their family”

Mav nodded in agreement

“I’ll talk to him,” Ronan said

“I’ll have Daisy see if she can find a link between Jennings and Jack that’s s panicked after Caleb showed up and reached out to Jack, it would explain how he knew Caleb was no longer in Seattle It would have been the perfect time for him to silence him” Mav looked at me and said, “We found a tracker on the rental car we used in West Virginia I was the one who rented it Jack probably knew I’d be one of the people going after Caleb and had soencies for my information We had the car delivered to the airfield we landed at – the tracker was probably already on it I’m sorry, Jace It never even occurred to us to check it”

I shook my head “It wouldn’t have occurred to me either,” I said “I shouldn’t have insisted on radio silence,” I added “I panicked” I shook ht on his chest If I’d moved just a fraction of a second slower…”

Ronan put his hand over ot hi another shot at him”

I nodded “I need to ask you guys a favor I need to go back to Germany for a few days Can Caleb and Willa stay here?”

I realized after the question that I hadn’t even pointed out that Caleb and I were together now and that he would be staying withforward Hell, Caleb and I hadn’t even had a chance to talk about ould happen once things settled down I hadn’t even given thought to where we’d end up Though after everything that had happened, I was pretty sure that the where was the easy part Caleb’s family was here

And, as it turned out, so was mine

I just hadn’t realized it