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The wedding was being held in a church on the outskirts of don Seattle in a surprisingly run-down neighborhood I’d heard that the church was actually run by a pastor as friends with one of my other teammates, Phoenix, and his husband Levi The chapel was small, but everyone squeezed in, and those who couldn’t find seats stood along the sides There were flowers everywhere, courtesy of Aleks, who apparently worked for a florist The young otten the ie crowd made him nervous, so he’d spentarea of sorts I’d seen Caleb disappear into the room several ti on his new friend
The weeks before the wedding had brought about so what had happened to Jack Cortano just two days after Caleb had visited him
There was no explanation for it, but somehow there’d been a eneral population He’d been dead within a matter of hours His body had been discovered in the showers He’d been stabbed repeatedly with several hoation, but they’d yet to determine which inmates had killed him or how the mix-up had happened in the first place
I’d been certain Ronan had so, but he’d assured otten any answers until a few days later when a guard from the prison had shown up at Mav and Eli’s house on the er to Caleb was gone, we’d returned to Mav and Eli’s ho The guard, a ht Caleb his phone back, which he’d left behind when he’d visited his father
Caleb hadn’t been home, but I’d used the opportunity to ask Phelps about the ed his shoulders andand in time He’d then asked me to wish Mr Galvez-Christenson well and he’d walked away I’d mentioned the visit to Caleb, but I hadn’t voiced uard had somehow been involved in the “mistake” that had led to Jack’s death Caleb hadn’t reacted much to the news of his father’s murder I’d been worried that he hadn’t really processed it at first, but as the days had passed and he’d continued to act as relaxed as he’d been since the day he’d gone to the prison, I’d started to accept that Caleb had accomplished what he’d set out to do
He’d said goodbye to that piece of his life and he didn’t want or need it back
Despite an exhaustive search, ere no closer to deterle call between the Jennings’ house and the office of Jack’s lawyer It wasn’t definitive proof that Jack had hired the s had called Jack theAnd since the coroner investigating Jennings’ suicide had ruled the man’s death as such, ere at a dead end Declan had planted the seed with the Bethesda police to investigate the death as a possible homicide, but they hadn’t found any definitive proof of foul play
To be safe, Caleb was still being accompanied by reed thisto end the twenty-four-hour protection because Caleb needed a sense of normalcy that he hadn’t ever really had
Cutting ties with his father hadn’t been soed hiot stressed, though he hadn’t acted on it And he still needed Eli’s andanywhere He’d started seeing a therapist, though he’d asked Eli if it would be okay if he saw someone different from the woman Eli saw Caleb knew there would be a day where he’d want to tell Eli the truth about the level of Jack’s obsession with him and the subsequent jealousy Caleb had felt as a result, but he wanted his relationship with Eli to be stronger before he tackled that particular issue Seeing a different therapist gave Caleb a sense of being able to open up about everything without having to worry that the therapist would judge him out of deference to Eli
Caleb’s relationship with his stepreatly improved and he often took Willa over there for visits Mariana had given us both a crash course on the basics of caring for an infant and whenever we did have a burning question about so, we called her or any of the half-dozen people in our immediate circle of friends who knew their way around the ins and outs of babies Caleb and I were still searching for a place of our own, but eren’t in any real rush The proxiave Eli and Caleb a chance to reconnect