Ethan was profiling it as quickly as he could. There were two categories.
Clues.
Damage.
Everything was falling into one of those two groups, and he knew where this would be.
“Do they know?” Chris asked.
Blackhawk shook his head.
Now, Gene was curious.
“Know what?” he asked.
They didn’t have secrets in their marriage, so Chris shared what Elizabeth had requested.
“She called me from Rayna’s before we found this out. She asked me to get his parents exhumed and moved to that warehouse that Callen just bought to make into apartments.”
That hung there.
“Wait. She did the same thing he did?” Gene asked.
Callen just stood there with wide eyes.
“Oh, boy,” he said.
Yeah, there was a lot of that phrase going around, and with good reason. With Elizabeth, seldom were there coincidences. That she’d done the same thing…
“We need to tell her,” Chris said, “but…this might be the final straw for her.”
Yeah, it could be.
Gene lowered his voice.
“So, your first thought is to call us here so we’re all going to get boned when she finds out we went behind her back? Does no one see how badly that is going to end?”
Well, yeah.
Specifically, Ethan.
So, he went there. He wasNOTdoing that again, because it nearly damaged them.
“We have to tell her,” Ethan said. “We know that he took them a while ago when he was prepping for this game. He heldonto them, and they were his collection. We took his treasure, and then he took hers. If we don’t tell her, this handicaps her.”
Yeah, that was exactly what Chris had been worried about. That was something they couldn’t let happen. They could control what they chose to do, even if they couldn’t with the killer. What their woman needed was their faith.
And trust.
“Any other killer, and I’d say we put them back, and we shut our pieholes,” Ethan admitted. “With this game, we can’t risk it.”
Gene sighed.
In that moment, his heart broke for Elizabeth. If someone dug up his dad, who died years ago, he’d be pissed they defiled his grave.
And he didn’t like his father.
ElizabethLOVEDhers.
