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he’ll call out the cavalry if I don’t check in.”

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Kelly pushed Nick’s aviators down his nose and flipped

through Nick’s recently dialed numbers. He paused when

he saw that Nick had called Ty Grady several nights ago. He

glanced at Nick in surprise. Nick hadn’t spoken to Ty about

anything that didn’t have to do with work since they’d come

home from Scotland.

“You talked to Ty?” Kelly asked.

Nick glanced at him, then again before returning his

attention to the road. “Yeah, he called to check up on us. I

called him back, he pegged JD’s accent for us. Why?”

Kelly shrugged. “If you two are on speaking terms again,

he’d be a good one to call in for this shit, you know?”

“Are we talking about Tyler?” Julian asked, leaning

forward to put his face between the two of them from the

backseat. “Please do call him, I have missed being handcuffed

to every possible surface whenever I speak.”

Nick glanced at him in the rearview mirror, smiling

slightly. Then he tapped Kelly’s knee and shook his head. “We

got this. Call Hagan.”

“Okay.” Kelly found Hagan’s number and dialed, then

handed the phone to Nick. He watched him, though, his

hangover forgotten. Ty and Nick had known each other

since they were both seventeen years old. To think that their

friendship was crumbling, or worse, coming to an end, made

Kelly immeasurably sad. It was like losing a family member.

“Hagan. Yeah, I’m sorry, I should have checked in last

night. I know.” Nick glanced at Kelly and rolled his eyes. “We

got distracted. Anyway listen, we’re on our way to Concord.”

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