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RECAP FROM 8-BIT
Cat looked all around for Ethan, worry gnawing in her gut. Where the heck was he? He said he was right behind her. The Eveque and his wife invited them to the Main House because Mah-Mah was throwing a Hurricane Party and The Twelve and blood family would be going. And whoever else in that Hatch needing shelter.
She just needed Ethan to hurry so she could tell him she was so wrong about what she’d said regarding his AI family. He’d all but panicked when she mentioned destroying that dungeon. At that time, she hadn’t realized it meant he’d be destroying the only family he’d had all these years. Poor sweetheart. Of course, they would find a way to cut out the evil without killing his AI angels. If he thought he had to do something so terrible, he’d be tortured right now. Which was why she needed to tell him.
She tried his phone one more time, getting the voice mail again. She opened the text box, hoping he saw it.Hey, wanted to tell you I was so very wrong to say you needed to destroy your AI family, of course we’re not doing that. We’ll find another way to remove the bad things without hurting the good. I love you so much. Please hurry.
“Heyyyy!”
Cat turned, seeing a beautiful woman in overalls headed up the Basilique steps. “I’m Beth, Sahvrin’s wife.”
She sucked in a breath. “The Belle Eveque? Oh my goodness, I’ve heard so much,” Cat said, smiling at how pretty she was.
“I’ve been excited to meet you,” she said, eyeing her with a huge, knowing grin before leaning in and whispering, “How’s married life going?”
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.
