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The small baton-looking item that once served no purpose at all somehow finding its function. Its sole purpose.
“Would this help?”
forty-seven
Rory
Silas’sfacetwistsindisgust. “What is that?”
His son’s morphs into a similar hostility, only his is directed at his father and not the object in his hand. “You got anything better, old man?”
Holding it next to the box, it becomes evident that although a good idea, the thin object doesn’t fit. It’s small and looks about the right size, but it only has a thin stem. The ornate oval bow on one end appears to be more for decoration.
The other side has a notch down the middle, but that wouldn’t conform either since it’s concave to the rest of the metal.
Eli rips the tape from Madison’s mouth after she groans into it. Why no one had thought to untie her since the gun was taken from reach and Lorna held back is startling. Everyone was too invested in everything else going on.
On the plus side, this is the longest amount of time I’ve ever been around her and she was quiet. Not a proud moment to shed light on, considering the situation, but facts are facts.
Working her sore jaw, Madison mumbles her appreciation.
I flick at the minuscule indent on the edge of the stem while Eli gets to work undoing the rest of the tape from her arms and legs. Freeing her fully once and for all.
“I think something goes here,” I wonder, rubbing my thumb over it again. “It appears to be some sort of clasp.” Something another item would slide into.
“You all are so stupid,” Lorna’s shrill voice whines. Those feral eyes of hers shift between us, while she stays stuck in Sgt. Daniels’s strong hold.
Her breath chortles and it echoes around the room. Not a single person is amused.
Cole steps into her, those icy blues of his disgusted as he rakes them over her figure, searching. His confidence never bolsters.
“Where is it?” He asks with a rough edge to his tone.
“You think Camellia would’ve made it that easy? I thought you were her child. You should know better than anyone how she was.”
“Where’s the missingpiece, Lorna,” Abram asserts through clenched teeth.
Lorna tsks, and it’s infuriating how well she holds herself even while held back. Her disinterest for everyone is almost intimidating.
We aren’t thinking like her, is what Lorna’s saying without saying it.
If the others are talking around me, I’m no longer listening, stuck in my mind. My concentration is elsewhere as I start to chew on the nail of my thumb.
Lorna had said Cole should know Camellia better than anyone. If that’s true, then where would Iceman put something that he didn’t want to be found?
Somewhere far enough out of reach from everyone else that it’s safe but also accessed again if needed.
She gave the box to Eli’s mom, and the baton-like item to Cole, who else would she have trusted with something so personal?
We don’t know what’s in the box, but whatever it is, it has to be important enough that Lorna broke into the Daniels’ home to get it. My bets on it involving Hardin and Silas because she’d admitted she’d done it originally for him.
Whatever is in this box is the answer to where his portion of the company had gone.
Think, Rory.
Think.
“Would you stop that?” Madison complains, shielding her eyes. “You’re going to make me go blind.”
