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“You have a problem, Fox.”
“What kind of problem?”
“Last night…” I lower my voice, taking full control of its volume. “Some Snake— reptilian folks showed up at my place in Boston looking for you.”
“Are you sure?” he asks quickly.
“Positive. My guess is they figured out who was behind the exposure and they aren’t too happy about it.”
“Do you know who they were?”
“Yeah, Elijah and Lilah Hart.” I wait for a reaction, but silence screams back at me. “Fox?”
“I’ll be on the next flight home.”
“No,” I say. “That’s a horrible idea. As of right now, they don’t know where you are.”
“But they know where you are,” he says. “You don’t want to get cornered by the Harts, Boxcar… especially Lilah.”
I laugh, forcing any manliness I have to the surface. “I think I can handle—”
“No, Box,” he interrupts. “You really can’t.”
I deflate. “I know, man. I’m kinda in over my head here.”
“Lay low,” he tells me. “Just go into hiding for a while until I can come home and deal with it myself.”
It’s always been my first instinct. Run away. It’s not like I don’t have the means to do it right now. I have plenty of untraceable money to throw at an escape plan. There’s nothing stopping me, except…
“I can’t, Fox.”
“Why not?”
“Because they know about Caleb.”
Fox exhales. “Then, you know what you have to do.”
“I know, but…” Our brief history rushes to the front of my mind. “I don’t wanna.”
“Boxcar.”
“This isn’t exactly the reunion I had in mind!”
“Well, it’s the one you’re getting,” he says. “You can’t walk away from this. If she’s in danger, you have to tell her about it. Now.”
“Yeah, but…” I snap my fingers. “I know! You can call her and I’ll—”
“Nope.”
“Dammit.”
I sit back and sigh loudly.
Caleb Fawn. The love of my life.
The bane of my existence.
“Fine. I’ll go see her.”
