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“I guess so,” he said, noddingslowly.
Adam’s face went white as a sheet. “You think they might’ve killed Lindsay to keep her quiet once they realized what she knew?” he asked, voice barely above awhisper.
“Maybe.”
“If that’s true, why didn’t they warn her first?” he asked, gesturing to the hole in the floorboards. “Like they did withyou.”
“Maybe they did,” Hunter interjected. “But you know what Lindsay was like. She would’ve told them to go fuck themselves. Probably told them she was going to expose them to the whole world as soon as she had achance.”
“Yeah, maybe,” Adam muttered, lowering his gaze to thefloor.
“There’s one other thing,” I said. “Something we didn’t mention earlier. I thought it might be too much for you to deal with, but now I think you shouldknow.”
“What isit?”
I shifted uncomfortably in my spot. “Your dad is probably in the Network. We think he might’ve even been one of the foundingmembers.”
“No,” Adam murmured, shaking his head. “Noway.”
Hunter crouched next to him and lay a hand on his shoulder. “It’s true,” hesaid.
“Are yousure?”
“Yeah. Pretty fuckingsure.”
“So that means he… he could’ve been the one to push Lindsay that night.” Tears shimmered in Adam’s eyes, and he took a shaky breath. “Right?”
Hunter nodded. “Yeah. Another member could’ve done it, but either way, he would’ve known aboutit.”
“That would also explain why he called you crazy when you said you thought her death wasn’t a suicide,” I added, looking at Hunter. “He might’ve been worried that you’d figure out the truth if you looked intoit.”
His eyes shuttered, and he took a deep breath and rubbed at his temples. “This is too fucking much,” he said in a low voice. “We have to find a way to stop these bastards before it’s toolate.”
“Before they hurt anyone else,” Iadded.
“But I thought you said you didn’t have enough evidence to actually go to the cops,” Adam said. “So what can wedo?”
A lightbulb seemed to switch on in my head, and my brows shot up. “This is going to sound crazy, but… I think I might have anidea.”
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Laney
“No. No way.”Hunter folded his arms across his chest, brows drawn downward. “It’s toodangerous.”
I’d just spent the last few minutes outlining my plan to clinch the solid evidence we needed to take down the Network, but he wasn’t having a bar ofit.
I lifted a palm. “Just think about it.Please.”
“I don’t need to think about it. Your idea is fuckinginsane.”
I sighed and looked to Adam forsupport.
“Laney’s right, you know,” he said, looking at his brother. “It’s probably the only way to get what we need. It’s not like you can just show up at an FBI field office and hand in that book from the library. They’d laugh you out of the building. You need somethingundeniable.”
Hunter scowled. “I get that, but it’s still completely fuckinginsane.”
“I know it sounds crazy, and I know it’s dangerous, too,” I said. “But if we do it, you’ll be right there with me. You can protectme.”
