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She realized she might be the first woman she actually wanted to talk to about that. “Like a dream.”
“So it’s true? You and Ethan are…more than just an arrangement of algorithms and numbers?”
Cat had to laugh real good at that. “I’m happy to finally tell somebody that I’m the happiest woman on my side of the world.”
She brought her hands together in a clap then pressed them against her chest, beaming with joy for her. “I’m so happy. Bishop has been so worried about his T-8-Bit.”
“Why?” Cat wondered, trying not to be alarmed.
“Mostly the stuff about his past,” she said with regret before smiling. “But that mess is on its way out the door, thanks to you.”
They weren’t out the woods yet, but she nodded, again looking around. “He was supposed to be here by now. And I can’t reach him.”
“Bishop said he was running a little late, hejusttalked to him.”
“He did? Did he say why?”
She smiled then gave a funny look. “Bishop said you must’ve done quite a work in him. That he’d never heard him so poetic.”
“Poetic?” She didn’t recall him ever being poetic.
She wagged a hand. “Something about removing something to reclaim land.”
Panic punched Cat in the stomach. “Something about a false idol?”
“Yes!” she said, then drawing her brows together. “What’s wrong?”
She pulled out her phone, her heart beating her chest to death as she dialed Ethan again.
“Is everything okay?”
“I need to get in touch with him,” Cat said, her panic sending her in erratic circles.
“Is Ethan okay?”
“NO!” she gasped, tears filling her eyes. “No, he’s…he’s going to remove the only family he’s ever had because I told him he needed to, but I was wrong, he doesn’t, he shouldn’t! Please, help me, I need to stop him. I need to go to him!”
“Okay, okay, we’ll find somebody to take you.” Belle Eveque looked around, pulling her down the Basilique steps. She put her fingers in her mouth and let out a whistle. “Lucas!” she yelled, waving.
They hurried toward the man now jogging.
“Yes ma’am?” he asked, out of breath.
“Is there a way for you to grab a swamp dragon and run her to 8-Bits?”
He eyed Cat. “The Hack House?”
“No, his real house,” Cat hurried.
“Uhhh, not real sure how to get there.”
“Dammit. Bishop!” Beth yelled, waving and pulling Cat with her.
When they reached him, he demanded, “What’s wrong?”
“She needs to get to Ethanrightaway, it’s an emergency,” Beth whispered loudly.
“I told him he needed to get rid of the AI part of his life,” Cat gasped, covering her mouth.
Bishop’s gaze snapped to her. “AL and Big G?”
She nodded, tears streaming. “We had a huge fight last night and I’d said that before I understood,” she cried, grabbing Beth’s hands and pleading. “I didn’t realize Big G and AL are part of what I told him to getridof!”
She’d only seen Bishop up close a few times but the panic on his face brought hers. He pulled his phone out, swearing in French then turning. Pacing. “Come on, mon frier, pick up.”
Seconds more and he shook his head and shoved his phone in his pocket. “Let’s go,” he ordered Beth and Cat.
