“That’s what I’m thinking. He might also be insulting her based on killing to hookers. With this kind of fractured mentality, honestly, the hookers are anyone’s guess.”
Gabe was honest.
“I don’t like this.”
Yeah, preaching to the choir on that.
Ethan continued.
“He’s drawing similarities. He’s coming undone, and he wants us to know that he sees her as both. She goes to church, and she’s holy, but she’s also with multiple men, and he considers her a whore. He put the uterus in the jar as a way of telling her that her children are in jeopardy. While he can’t get them, he’s coming for the next best thing.”
“Chris,” Callen said. “He’s the ME. He was with Elizabeth when she went into labor and nearly died, resulting in the hysterectomy. Our son is named after him and Tony. That also puts Tony in danger. We have both of them locked down in case he tries for our anthropologist, too.”
Gabe listened as the men walked him through it in an update. It was clear Elizabeth hadn’t yet.
Blackhawk picked up where his brother had left off.
“Elizabeth told us that the city is tied to DC.Corpus Christi, means Christ’s body,” Ethan stated. “Elizabeth and Gene both went to theCorpus Christicelebration in DC this last June with our daughter. It’s to validate the sacraments in a patriarchal-based religion. He’s telling her she has no place in it.”
Gabe wasn’t Catholic.
Hell.
After all he saw, he wasn’t Christian anymore. God had left that building a long time ago.
“Refresh my memory. What are the sacraments?” he asked.
Ethan knew them because he’d been researching before Gabe called.
Only, he didn’t get to say anything.
Gene was off the phone.
“Gabby is in, but she needs to wake up, and then she’ll call us to get started. As for the sacraments, they are Baptism. When you’re born, you get yourself dunked. This washes awaysin. Confirmation is the next one. It perfects our bond with the church through God. The Eucharist is next, and that’s the communion where we take the body and blood of Christ.”
Gabe was listening.
He’d once been a profiler, and he’d go back to doing that if he could help them.
“Reconciliation is next. You know…confession. That’s how you get forgiveness from your sins. Being anointed when you’re sick, or the last rites is one too,” he offered, rattling them off. “Marriage is another, and that’s being married before Christ. Lastly, the holy orders for those who want to walk in the apostolic ministry. Elizabeth has had four of the sacraments. She wasn’t married in a Catholic church.”
They all looked over at Chris when he gasped.
“Um…”
Gabe was curious.
“What?”
That’s when the family knew why he’d gasped. She had been married in a church. Was this nut saying he knew about that, too?
Ethan knew they had to put it out there. There was a damn good chance that Devon Slater knew the truth. He could have found the marriage license in Colombia.
“She has been married in a church,” he admitted.
Gabe was confused.
“You guys eloped, and then you had a wedding on the rez. I was there. I remember both clearly.”
