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“She’s not wrong I did,” Bella up to the counter with his coffee, plus oneat the extra cup

“Right Like I’d ever drink around you again after you drugged me the last time”

I knew it the second the light hit his eyes that I’d said too much

“So , huh, love?”

Shit

“We need to talk,” he added when I stayed stubbornly quiet

“I really don’t think we need to do that”

“Ada for you”

“Hence…” I said, waving eneral area

“Right But I found you here You think he couldn’t? It took so, but you have connections to this place You need to go”

“I need to coht? That’s what you’re getting at”

“Shawn, please,” Bellaave me pause Was that desperation? It sure sounded like it

Taking a deep breath I moved out from behind the counter

“Velle, can I have your phone for a second?” I asked His brows drew together, but he passed it toa picture of myself, then one of Bellamy “If you don’t hear from me in an hour, call the police and tell the him his phone back

“You’re serious?”

“I’o,” I said,into step behind me

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Bellamy

I found her thanks to two randoood luck

First, Nia had found a sealed juvie record from Baltimore

And then Quin got a call frootten fro him to work private security for the fa Which was the exact job we’d hired hi since we couldn’t both pay him for the same job

Quin was quick enough on his toes to ask Kingston to bill Shawn

Which she’d done with a wire transfer

Which Quin had been able to trace

To Baltimore

Nia had been able to do a little digging, enough to narron a general area of an otherwise pretty decently big city

“It’s weird, though,” Nia said, shaking her head at me

“What is?”