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Mikey sucks in a breath. “He’s still struggling with finding her in Paul’s basement.”
“Really?” I frown. I had no idea and I’m usually in tune with my brothers.
“Yeah. You know he keeps shit to himself and he tries to forget about it, but he’s been having fucked up dreams about it all.”
“For real?” Conor frowns too.
“Yup. If he’s not sleeping with Jessie, he freaks out when he wakes up and she’s not there.”
“Why hasn’t he said anything?” I ask.
“It doesn’t happen all the time and you know he doesn’t like to worry anyone. But he thought she was dead when he found her, you know?” Mikey says with a sigh.
“So the thought of anyone taking her…” I start to say but I don’t need to finish the sentence.
“Yup,” Mikey says before taking a drink of his coffee.
“No wonder he freaked out then.” Conor flashes his eyebrows.
“What do you both think of Hayden?” I take a swig of my coffee.
“Don’t trust him one little bit,” Conor replies first.
“Me neither,” Mikey adds.
“Neither do I, but I wouldn’t trust anyone when it comes to her. Jessie seems pretty open to this guy being her half-brother, though,” I say.
“Yup,” Mikey nods his agreement. “And if we don’t support her just because we can’t stand the idea of sharing her with anyone else, then we’re assholes.”
“Kinda,” Conor sighs. “But that still doesn’t mean we have to trust a single thing that comes out of this guy’s mouth.”
“True.”
Conor arches an eyebrow at me. “You gonna ask Jax to look into him?”
Jackson Decker is one of the best hackers in the world. He’s a buddy of ours and he looked into Jessie for me when we first met her and had no idea who she really was. And while Jax is good at what he does, my wife is better. “Are you kidding me? Jessie would lose her shit for real if I did that. She’s perfectly capable of looking into this guy on her own.”
“What if she…” Conor shakes his head and stares at his coffee.
I frown at him. “What if she what?”
He runs a hand over his jaw. “You know that thing where people are having a debate or something, and they only look for the evidence that will support their argument?”
“You think she won’t be objective?” I ask.
“Do you? You saw how she reacted in there. How she smiled when he talked about how they both have a sweet tooth and love baseball.”
“She’s the best at what she does, Con. We ask Jax to look into this guy for us and it’s telling her we don’t trust her. She’ll never go for it.”
“Do we have to tell her?” Mikey asks with a shrug.
“Yes!” Conor and I reply in unison.
“Okay. Just a thought.”
“Let’s see if there is anything else she can dig up and if Hayden gives us any reason to, I’ll broach the subject of Jax taking a look into him too. Okay?”
“Okay,” Mikey and Conor agree.
