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Digging into Jason’s life. They found more information on him than she could have imagined. He had convictions all up both his arms. Armed Robbery, solicitation, hit and run, as well as kidnapping. That was all there was in the top few of the list and she sat down at the table.

“How does he keep getting out of jail? It looks to me like he’s been let out at least a dozen times after only serving a few weeks. Who is releasing him? And why?” No one had an answer and she knew that they wouldn’t. “It’s too bad we don’t know anyone with…maybe I can do it.”

“Maybe you can do what?” She explained to them how she needed to find Skye and that she’d only had to touch her before she was able to not just figure out who she was but also that she needed her help. “It’s worth a shot. What do you need?”

“I’m not sure. Let me just think about this for a minute.” She sat down with all the paperwork that they had on the man and the older couple and started touching things. She could get little bits of information on them but nothing more. When she picked up the DNA package, she felt a swarm of information roll over her until she had to let it go. She looked up at Tucker.

“It’s bad, isn’t it?” She nodded, and he sat down beside her. “All right. Tell me, and we’ll work from there. Or you tell me what I need to do, and I’ll do it. I trust you with my life, love, and we can do this together.”

Almost as soon as he touched her with his hand, she knew that he was getting all the information that she’d found. Even Matt’s real name and that of the people that he’d been born to.

“They killed them. Like they were nothing, they killed his parents to get to the boy when they found out about how smart he was and what he could do.” She nodded and waited for him to continue. “They killed that young couple just because they had a smart son, and they wanted him for his magic.”

“Not just that. They wanted his inheritance. However, they were never able to collect on it due to the fact that they’d have to admit who Trevor—his real name, was and how he’d come to be with him. Greed and evilness. If that wasn’t enough, they stole all the things that he had at his house and took it with them. Wiping out all evidence of the boy even being there. The couple is buried under their home so that they could keep a good eye on them never being found.”

“Christ.” Tucker got up to pace. He was tossing out comments like he was giving this a great deal of thought and tossing them away nearly in the same breath. He was pissed, she could tell that, and worst of all, she didn’t know how they could make the Connors pay for what they’d done. “Hewas only one, so it stands to reason that he’d probably not remember his own parents. Or he does and that’s what is keeping him up at night. I know he has nightmares. I hear him crying out when he goes to sleep.”

“We have to do something. I don’t know that much about laws to know where to even begin.” He said that he might well know someone. “Good. But before we do anything, we’re going to have to tell Skye and Trevor what we figured out. And how. It’s the least we can do to keep them safe if they know what they’re up against.”

“I agree.” He continued to pace the room and when he stood in front of her again, she knew that he’d hit on something but wasn’t very happy with it. “If she were a mate to one of my cousins, this would be so much better for her. But they all said that they didn’t think she was and—”

“Didn’tthinkshe was?” He nodded, then smiled. “So there is a chance like you didn’t know that she’s someone’s mate, and they just don’t know how to figure it out. Christ, Tucker, if I could find your parents right now, I’d dig them up and kill them again. Who treats their children like they did and think that it’s all right?”

“Not just my parents but all of our parents. I think they were sick with money and power, and it went to their head.” She agreed with him. “There are a couple of things that I can take care of right now, but in the meantime, you do your thing with whomever you thought could help. Tonight, we’ll sit down with Trevor and Skye and tell them what we’ve figured out. Maybe they’ll have some more information once we start telling them what we’ve figured out.”

He kissed her on her mouth and left her there. She wondered if there would ever be a time when she didn’t want him to leave her. Things were heating up concerning the young man and his guardian. She only hoped that she could keep them safe until such time that they could figure out if they were mates or not with one of the others.

She liked Skye and hoped that they could be long-lasting friends. If only they could get the things cleared up with the couple and Jason. They were going to have to go and soon. Kaida didn’t even care if the lot of them were killed or put into prison, so long as they were out of their lives.

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Skye wasn’t sure if what they were telling her was the truth of things but she also had no reason to not believe them. To think that the boy she’d been taking care of for the last few years wasn’t even their son nor grandson, and he had magic, too. She wondered for a moment if she had been caring for him or if he was caring for her. It seemed that he was a good deal smarter than she was in all things.

“Are you all right?” She nodded, then shook her head at Matt…Trevor. That was something else she was going to have to get used to. He was Trevor and not Matt, as they’d all thought. “I know just how you feel. It’s like my life has been a lie and I just don’t know where to start over or just let things go the way that they are now.”

“I’m sorry about your parents, Trevor. They’ve been so close to you all this time, and you didn’t know.” He told her that he thought too that they’d been watching over him. “I don’t doubt that at all. You’re a good kid and smart too. They’d be so proud of you right now.”

“You had a lot to do with my upbringing, Skye. I wouldn’t have survived those first few years had you not taken me under your wing. You’re the best mother figure a kid like me could have.” She hugged him. Holding back tears as best she could, she held onto him until he pulled away. It occurred to her that she loved him like he really was her own son and wouldn’t have had it any other way. “Don’t get all emotional on me. You’ll ruin my new shirt.”

They both had a lot of new things. Not just clothing but a room for themselves. Food whenever they wanted it as well as someone to talk to in the way of the Savage family. All of them had been very good to them, and she couldn’t have been happier to have them in their lives.

“Kaida saved my life, and I can’t help but feel like I owe her everything. Did you hear that Tucker is looking into some contacts that he has to figure out what to do next? It’s not like the Connors are going to be getting out of jail anytime soon. Nor will Jason.” They had enough evidence on the Connors to keep them in jail as a flight risk. So far, they had demanded that the police allow them totake their son home and be done with everything. They weren’t budging on allowing them to get out anytime soon.

Jason was going back to prison. This time, she hoped for good. The man had murdered more people than she would have imagined. And he’d been hired by the Connors to kill her and take the kid. How they figured out that she was with him, she might never know, but it was scary for her to think what he would have done to her had she not kept on the run from him.

“I think that we’re safe for now, don’t you?” She said that she’d never felt safer than she was right now. “Good. I was hoping you’d say that. Now, before you get upset with me, I’m going to go and see the Connors. They won’t be in the same room as I will be, but far enough away from them that they can’t touch me. Tucker said that he thinks I can get a confession from them where no one else will be able to.”

“Please don’t do this.” He said that he needed some closure, too. “I would imagine that you do, but this isn’t the way to go. They could hurt you. If not physically, then mentally, for sure.”

“I started to tell you that I’d be fine, but I don’t know that for sure. I do know that if I don’t do this I’ll wonder for the rest of my life as to why and how they did this to them and to me.” He hugged her. “You can understand that, can’t you? Why I’d need to know what made me so special at such a young age that they thought that they could get away with this. And they might well have if not for you coming along when you did.”

They talked about other things in their life rather than the one that was going on now. She understood why he needed this and was happy that he could. However, she didn’t have to like it any more than she was going to like confronting Jason someday in court. It was funny—not ha-ha funny but weird funny—how the two of them had found each other. If they hadn’t, she was sure that at some point, she would have been murdered, and Trevor would be right back with the Connors being locked up in his room and only brought out when there was a way to show him off. Her heart hurt for the young boy.

When Tucker left with Trevor a few hours later, she went to the kitchen to find something to munch on until dinner. She didn’t know what she was smelling, but she was looking forward to having whatever it was. This house always smelled like home-cooked meals and love. She envied the love that Kaida and Tucker had. It was like they were each in their own little world and only came out when it was impolite not to. She laughed every time she caught them kissing. It would embarrass them so much.

Getting to the police station an hour later, the time being set up by Jason’s attorney, she sat outside his cell and watched him fumble around with his clothing. His attorney, someone she’d only just met, told her that she could ask him anything she wanted, but she wasn’t to expect it to be used against him. Standing up, she was nearly to the door when she was called back.

“He told me that you’d be stubborn about this. Remember Ms. Houston, whether he agrees or not with that, everything is being recorded including there is a camera in every cell.” He winked at her and she returned to the seat. “Now, she’s only here because it was a request of yours to see her, Jason. What is it you wish to talk to her about?”

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