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Lilah’s face falls. “No.”
“If you want to wage war, he has experience with that.” He keeps calm. “Fox is our best bet.”
“For what? Getting stabbed in the back? Even if we knew where to find him — which we don’t — what makes you think he’d even agree to help us?”
I raise a hand. “I know where he is.”
She twists in her chair. “You do?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“I’m a bounty hunter,” I say with a wink. “A good one.”
She screws up her face. “Eh…”
“I caught you, didn’t I?”
Her head falls to hide the smile.
Dante rubs the bridge of his nose. “Fox is Code Black, just like us,” he says, staying on topic. “Strength in numbers is the best strategy.”
Lilah bleeds skepticism. “I doubt he’ll be eager to play nice considering what we did to his friends…”
He shrugs. “We have to try.”
She squints with annoyance as he throws her words back at her. “Fine,” she says, shifting focus to me. “Where is Fox?”
“Los Angeles,” I answer.
“The house in the Hills was really his?”
“Yep.”
She grits her teeth. “Dammit…”
Dante stands up. “Then, that’s where we’re going.”
“When?” Lucy asks.
“Tomorrow morning.”
“I’m going with you,” she adds.
Dante smiles. “And if I thought for a second I could talk you out of it, I would have already tried.”
Lilah nods. “We should have Grams and Gramps moved first. I don’t like the idea of them being there alone with Myra wandering around.”
The smile fades from his face. “Neither do I.”
“What should we tell them?” she asks. Her voice is small, like a weak child, and my heart breaks for her.
Dante shifts on his feet, looking no stronger than she sounds. “Nothing,” he says, flexing his jaw. “We’ll say he got called to volunteer overseas for a few months. They don’t need to know otherwise.”
Lilah blinks hard and exhales toward the floor. “We always knew something like this would happen. Eventually, one of us wouldn’t come back.”
“Yeah.” He clears his throat. “It was supposed to be me.”
