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“I know.”
“We have to find her,” he said, almost as if he was convincing himself.
“I know,” I repeated, then glanced around at the field we were in as if the two of us might’ve missed someone. “It would make sense for KSG to take Lily because she was an Irish mob princess, and I think James Keane has a bunch of sons around our age who aren’t married, right?” When Kieran grunted in affirmation, I said, “But they never worry about covering their tracks—they’re direct. They would’ve taken her straight to Virginia; they wouldn’t have done what they’re doing to throw Einstein off.”
“So, they’re taking her somewhere else,” Kieran muttered before releasing a drawn-out sigh. “And it has to be somewhere they don’t expect her to be able to escape.”
“Or maybe they just don’t want us following them yet,” I offered the possibility.
“They want to be ready,” Kieran acknowledged after a beat of hesitation.
“Maybe. But Lily isn’t dead,” I said unnecessarily, even if just to help my grieving heart and guilty conscience know that at least there was that.
In the middle of all this bullshit and heartache, Lily was alive.
We could find her.
Between Einstein, Kieran, Jess, Maverick, and me, we’d done that before.
“Shit,” Kieran hissed, the word instantly putting me on edge because it was at once worried and defeated and filled with warning.
My body vibrated as I put Vinny’s gun in the waistband of my jeans and then gripped my own. Listening and listening for whatever it was that could make Kieran sound like that.
“Don’t shoot,” he whispered low enough for only me to hear.
“Who is it?”
“Bad news,” he mumbled before standing.
DIGGS
“Yeah, see, I had a feeling it was something like this,” a familiar, masculine voice said.
I glanced over my shoulder and felt my stomach drop when I saw Kieran’s brother-in-law, Aurora’s husband, the cop, standing there in regular clothing. Arms down at his sides. Hands repeatedly flexing into fists.
“Twin,” Jentry said coldly, head bouncing before roughly shaking. “I fucking knew.”
“Knew what?” I asked, the warning in my question clear, but Jentry just lifted a brow at me, meeting the challenge.
“You think we didn’t know y’all were into something?” he asked with a bitter laugh. “I’m not a fucking idiot, but Jess told me dozens of times how good y’all were—about the good y’all do for so many people. And then I find you like this? Fucking hell, what’d you do to him?”
“He’s clearly had a bad day,” I said dryly, gesturing to Vinny’s lifeless body.
At the stunned sound that left Jentry, Kieran asked him, “Why are you even here?”
Jentry looked at me a second longer before glancing at Kieran, palm roughing over his jaw before he gestured to the houses I’d just run past. “I grew up there—my parents still live there,” he explained.
From the way Kieran’s gaze momentarily darted that way, he hadn’t known the house was so close to our main one. Then again, Jentry and Jessica had been separated by their addict mom and an adoption at a young age.
“I came to check on them when I heard about the explosion and heard a gunshot when I was getting out of my car,” Jentry went on, then lifted his chin at Kieran. “Saw you just before you disappeared into the grass.”
Kieran’s jaw worked before he asked, “Did you call it in?”
“Not yet.”
“Ever,” Kieran corrected at the same time I said, “At all.”
“You won’t call it in at all,” I repeated firmly.
