To get him to see what she was seeing, Elizabeth said two words to her fellow Catholic.
“Corpus Christi, Gene.”
He stared at her.
Oh, and she could see the wheels turning as he processed that information.
And when the lightbulb went on when he got it.
“The body of Christ? TheCorpus Christicelebration in DC?” he asked.
She nodded.
Callen was confused.
“Isn’t that the masses you guys take our daughter to? It sounds familiar.”
Chris knew.
Addison was always so amped about that time of the year in June. She looked forward to it.
“It is the masses you take Addy to. It represents Jesus in the sacraments as being the reason the Catholics all come together to embrace them. Or that’s what Addy told me.”
Gene gasped.
“Holy shit. He picked the first city based on that? He’s laying easter eggs all over the place. That’s fucking insane.”
She was aware.
The man had a long time to lay this all out to catch her off guard.
“So ,you asked what made me decide on DC? Well, first, it wasCorpus Christi. Then, it was the rosary. Care to guess what it looks like?” she asked. “Well, not covered in goo?”
They nodded.
“Flip to page ten.”
They did, and Callen saw it.
“What the holy fuckity? How many goddamn times is someone going to replicate that freaking rosary? I got that for my woman, and now everyone has one. I swear to God, nothing is fucking sacred.”
Just by the fact that Callen was dropping f bombs told them how pissed he was.
And scared.
Sadly, he was right.
It wasn’t the first time someone used that to get them. Javier Hughes had bought one to mess with Ethan, and now, she’d bet that somehow, he found information or had seen it at a gala when she’d been wearing it.
“I think he saw it,” she said. “Six months ago, we went to the Presidential Gala, and I wore red and gold for my Marine son. I also wore my rosary around my one wrist.”
She had.
They all remembered it.
“So, he saw it on the media, or he was there. I don’t recall seeing him there, but…I don’t pay jack shit attention to those things. I’m mostly sucking my gut in, and trying to check out my men.”
They were aware.
