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“Sorry to keep you waiting,” Nathan says as he and Drake walk in.
“You said you have some good news?” Lorenzo asks.
“Some very good news. We found the sister,” Nathan answers with a smirk.
“The sister? The one you told me about? The one who disappeared?” I ask Lorenzo. “What does she have to do with anything?”
Lorenzo nods but keeps his focus on Nathan. “You found her? How?”
“One of my new clients back in New York happens to be the best hacker in the country. She found her for me. Michaela Mulcahy is now Callie Stretton, and she lives in Nevada.”
“And did you manage to speak to her? Did she tell you what happened? Has Jake been covering for his big brother all these years?” Lorenzo asks.
Drake clears his throat. “How about we let her answer that herself?”
“Herself?” I gasp. “You mean she’s here?” I grip Lorenzo’s hand tighter. I’m not sure
I want to meet Brad and Jake’s sister. What if she’s as awful as they are?
Lorenzo squeezes my hand in return. “I’m right here, sunshine,” he assures me, then turns his attention back to Drake. “She was willing to come here after hiding for so long? Why?”
“She’s an advocate for women’s rights. She runs some charity in Nevada. I gave her an overview of the situation and she was keen to help. She’s on the level, I swear.”
“You want to meet her?” Lorenzo asks me.
“Do you think she can help us?”
“I think she might have some information that we could use to keep Jake off your back until I find a more permanent solution,” he replies. I don’t ask what his permanent solution is—I already know. I make a mental note to remind him that he can’t go around killing cops.
“Then yes, I’d like to meet her.”
“Brad and Jake abused her too, Mia,” Nathan says. “Her motives align with ours, I promise you that.”
They abused her? Their own sister? I swallow down a bubble of anxiety as Drake leaves the room. A few seconds later, he comes back with a woman who looks to be in her early thirties and is wearing the coolest pair of purple boots I have ever seen in my life.
She chews on her lip, and I feel her nervous energy from across the room. I guess she has even more reason to be anxious about this meeting than I do.
“Callie?” I say with as wide a smile as I can muster.
“Mia, right?” She gives me a faint smile in return.
“Yes.” I instinctively jump up from my seat and pull her into a hug. Thankfully, she’s a hugger too, and she hugs me right back. “Thank you so much for coming.”
She laughs nervously, tucking a strand of auburn hair behind her ear. “Anything I can do to save any woman from those toxic pieces of shit is my pleasure.”
The sadness in her eyes makes me want to cry. I didn’t have any siblings, but Kat was like a sister to me growing up. She has a brother, Leo, and he was always kind of an asshole, but I can’t comprehend how anyone could hurt their own sister.
When introductions have been made and Drake’s secretary has provided everyone with a hot drink, the four of us wait for Callie to speak.
“I guess I’m the one with all of the answers then?” she says with a wry laugh.
“We have some for you too,” Nathan tells her.
“You said Brad is dead, right?” she asks.
He gives her a curt nod.
“Good riddance to that piece of shit,” she mutters.
