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Please find their notes included in this envelope.
Your loving grandfather,
Anton
Though he was laying it on thick with that ‘loving grandfather’ bullshit, I read it, scanned thePauks’findings to make sure I hadn’t missed anything, then woke up my computer and logged in. A few seconds later, FaceTime had loaded and I was waiting for Eoghan to answer.
“Kid? You okay?”
Faintly, I smiled, just relieved he’d picked up. “I’m good. You?”
“Be better if you were in New York. When are you coming home again?”
“Dunno. You might be able to help with that.”
Eoghan, obviously fresh from the shower as he’d been dragging a towel over his head, paused. “You need me overseas?”
“No.” I grabbed the back of Star’s chair and hauled it nearer to my side so she was sitting within the webcam’s frame. “Star’s here. Star, this is Eoghan. Eoghan, meet Star.”
My baby bro narrowed his eyes at her. “You gonna keep giving Conor the runaround?”
“Maybe I like the runaround,” I retorted. “And be nice. I was nice to Inessa.”
“Inessa didn’t take off to Russia and ghost you.”
“He has a point, Conor,” Star said softly, then, to Eoghan, who was somehow the baby of the bunch and yet the deadliest of us all, promised, “I’m going to try not to repeat the runaround.”
My hand slipped up to her shoulder and I squeezed her gently. “We’re working together now.”
“Doing what? Bringing the Sparrows down?” he inquired, his curiosity tripped.
“That’s part of it. Remember I told you about Kuznetsov?”
“The guy who you said kidnapped Star?”
“Well, it was less kidnapping and more ‘holding in custody’ until she decided to stop trying to murder him.”
Eoghan shot Star a sympathetic look. “Don’t you just hate it when that happens?”
Her lips quirked into a smile. “Yeah. It sucks.”
Darting a glance between them, I noticed the embers of camaraderie stirring into being.
Intrigued, I wondered if they might actually be able to help one another if they became friendly—Eoghan’s PTSD was getting worse and Star’s headspace couldn’t be considered ‘healthy.’
Trying not to get my hopes up when both made rattlesnakes appear cuddly, I said, “It’s too small a world for you two not to have come across one another at some point.”
“Is there a question in there?” was Eoghan’s cool retort.
“Have you met before?”
Star peered at me like I was crazy. “Of course.”
“Were you friends?”
Eoghan snorted. “No. We’renoddingacquaintances.”
“What does that mean?”
