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“Yeah, sure,” he returned. “In fact, I’ve got plenty of time, because Lily is meeting up with the girls tonight while they do the wedding planning thing with Liv.”
“What about Liv?”
I turned around and saw that Brixton had poked his head into the room. Damon happened to be there as well.
“Jagger was just telling me that he had time to talk because Lily is going to be out with the girls while they wedding plan with Liv,” I told him.
“Oh, yeah, Damon and I were just talking about that,” Brixton replied. “Liv and Avalon drove together to The Steel Pub.”
None of this was news to me. Sawyer had shared that she and the girls were planning to get together tonight after her shift at work. I was glad for it, feeling grateful that they’d accepted her into the fold with so much ease. Sawyer was ecstatic that she’d found some friends outside of her coworkers, with whom she also seemed to have a really great rapport.
“Is everything okay?” Damon asked, his attention focused on me.
I sat down in one of the chairs, let out a sigh, and shook my head. “I don’t know,” I mumbled. “I thought that maybe Jagger could give me some advice.”
“What’s wrong?” Jagger pressed.
“It’s Sawyer,” I answered.
“Sawyer?” he repeated. “I thought everything was going well for the two of you. Did something happen?”
Shaking my head, realizing he’d gotten the wrong impression, I clarified, “We’re fine. Everything is actually fantastic between us. It’s just that… well, I got a call from a guy who is a detective in Maryland. He’s the guy that’s been working on the case involving the club that Sawyer was working at before she came here.”
“Is this that guy named Eric?” Jagger asked. “The same one that basically made Sawyer a target in the first place?”
“Yeah.”
“What’s this about?” Brixton asked.
I’d told Jagger about what had happened with Sawyer a few weeks ago. He knew from the start about Sawyer being the woman who’d had me all twisted up inside for years, but he didn’t know all that I’d learned about her situation. So, when I became even more twisted up inside about Sawyer for very different reasons, I went to him and shared.
Since Brixton and Damon didn’t know about the part of Sawyer’s situation that involved Eric, I decided that was the best place to start. I explained how everything happened with him that resulted in her becoming a target.
When I finished, Damon said, “Jesus. Didn’t the guy realize that by showing his face there for so long and then outing himself as a detective in front of one of the criminals was a bad idea? What a rookie mistake.”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. I don’t know how long he’s held his position, but he knows how I feel about the lack of care he showed in making sure Sawyer stayed safe.”
“So, what’s going on now? What did Eric have to say when he just called you?” Jagger questioned me.
“As it turns out, the reason these people wanted Sawyer dead wasn’t because they thought she’d already spoken out about them hiring underage girls to work at the club,” I started. “They wanted her dead, because they thought she knew about their other business dealings.”
“Let me guess,” Brixton chimed in. “Eric now knows what those other business dealings are.”
“Yep. And he insists they have a solid case against them for sex trafficking,” I confirmed. “The problem is that while the woman who ordered the hit on Sawyer is in custody along with a few of Sawyer’s former coworkers, there’s reason to believe she’s not entirely safe just yet.”
Confusion washed over their faces. “Why is that?” Damon asked.
“Adriana asked Eric if he’d made any visits to Pennsylvania to see his girlfriend,” I revealed.
“Sawyer dated the detective?” Brixton asked.
I shook my head. “No. But they saw how he had interacted with her when he came into their establishment. Sawyer thought the guy was genuinely interested in her, and it appeared that way to the people who worked with her.”
Silence settled over the room for a moment until Jagger finally declared, “So, they know she’s here.”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
“How can we help you?”
