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“Ican’t, Hades. I can’t fucking tell you where they are for about fifteen different legal and international treaty reasons.” He sighs. “But,I can tell you where they arenot.”
My brow arches. “That works. So, where aren’t they?”
“Anywhere outside the continental United States.”
“They’re not in Thailand?”
“I can’t tell you that.”
“But they’renotthere.”
Shane sighs. “I have to go, Hades. I can’t touch this with a mile-long pole.”
He hangs up. I stare at the floor, thinking.
Why is Nora Guin telling her friends she’s in Thailand, when neither she nor Elsa has left the country?
* * *
Eilish,the actual reason I came to Mt. Sinai today, smiles as I step into her private room.
“How’re you feeling, blondie?”
She makes a face, shrugging. “Meh, I’m fine.”
“Brought you something to brighten the place up.”
She grins at the bouquet of flowers in my hands. “Such a charmer.”
I shrug, taking the lid off a pitcher of water on her bedside table and putting the flowers into it.
“Hades…”
I glance at Eilish. Her brow is furrowed, her mouth twisted with words she’s not sure about saying out loud.
“Eilish, I don’t want to talk about—”
“Hades,c’mon. She didn’t do any of this. She can’t have.”
“Shedid,” I growl. “And I know that’s not a pleasant or convenient truth, and I know it fucking stings,believe me, I do,” I snarl. “But it is what it fucking is. She betrayed us all.”
Eilish shakes her head. “I refuse to believe that.”
“Yeah, and I refused to believe that my older brother Atlas was telling the truth when he told me Santa wasn’t real when I was six. But, ho-ho-fucking-ho.”
She looks down.
“She’s the reason you’reinhere, Eilish,” I growl. “She’s the fucking reason Sean is—”
I wince as her face contorts.
“I’m sorry,” I say quietly.
Yes, Sean was a good friend of mine. But he was also like a cousin to Eilish and Neve.
Her mouth goes small. “It’s okay,” she murmurs. “I’m coming to the service next week.”
“Want a ride?”
