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“So he knows you’re back in town,” Duke said. “Knows you saw him that night eight years ago. And maybe he was the rat and he’s worried you’ll tell someone he was there. So he follows you and gets you alone.”
“And tries to kill me,” she said hoarsely.
“She needs protection,” Hack said urgently. “We need to call Ink.”
“I’ll do that,” Duke said with a nod. “We’ll get her protection.”
“You’d recognize this guy if you saw him again?” Aidan asked.
“Yes.”
“We need to get some sort of artist to draw a picture,” Duke said.
“Or Greer could do it, she’s amazing,” Hack said.
Everyone looked at her and she blushed.
“We need to find this guy,” Hack said. “I won’t have him coming for her again.”
“We have to talk to our, uh, friend and see what he knows,” Duke said with clear reluctance.
“Could I talk to Ortega?” she asked. “I’m grateful to him. Am I able to say thank you?”
Hack grunted in disagreement but she ignored him.
“Probably not a good idea,” Ralen said. “We’ll give him your thanks, though. I’m hoping he’s in New York by now anyway.”
“He could be hunting,” Cash said.
“Hunting what?” she asked.
“Not what, who,” Ralen said. “The person who did this to you.”
She gulped. Right.
“This doesn’t explain why you came back now,” Aidan said to Cash.
Cash blew out a breath. “We heard a while ago that the Devil had disappeared. He’s been gone so long, it’s presumed that he’s dead. I wanted to come back then, but I wasn’t sure there was anything here for me anymore.”
“Oh, Cash,” she said sadly.
“I’m not the guy I used to be. And I wasn’t sure I could be your brother, certainly not the brother you knew before.” He looked from her to Aidan. “Then Dante had us come here because his stepsister wanted to move to Billings. We’re here to watch over her. For now.”
She frowned. There was something she should be able to connect here. Stepsister.
My stepbrother . . ..
“Bonnie?” she whispered. “She’s Dante’s sister?”
“Stepsister and yeah,” Cash said. “You know her?”
“Sort of. That was why you were talking to Titus that day.”
“You saw me?” Cash asked, shocked.
“Uh-huh.”
“Might pay not to get too close to Bonnie,” he warned her. “Dante is very protective.”
