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Star:Christ. What a monster.

Conor:The bastard keeps on surprising me. I thought his trying to start another World War was bad enough.

Conor:But, that’s not all.

Conor:Reinier has a whole file on Sparrow operations within Jorgmundgander.

Star:My mom?!

Conor:No. Your father’s murder was documented. I’m sorry, baby. Some of his meds were tampered with.

Star:I want to see the reports when I get back.

Conor:Of course. Hey, I love you.

Star:I love you too. I will NOT break down. I fucking won’t. I won’t. Tell me what else you’ve uncovered.

Conor:I know why Bogdan Belyaev and Aleks Kuznetsov were killed.

Star:Why?

Conor:Belyaev and Kuznetsov (Anton) were planning a takeover of the Sparrows. Belyaev would run the Sparrows, and Kuznetsov (Aleks) would head the Brotherhood. So, the other leaders took them out.

Star:I’m surprised Anton wanted to share the pie.

Conor:Temperance wasn’t wrong when she said their families go WAY back. When Anton spoke of Aleks, I used to wonder why, if he was so all-fired GOOD, he was friends with a fucker who murdered his wife.

Conor:Anyway, the interactions are odd. Bear had it right when he said the Brothers and the Sparrows are like siblings. They bickered a whole hell of a lot.

Conor:I looked at DeLaCroix’s emails at the time, and he was crowing to Smythe about beating Anton at his own game.

Star:Jesus. If Reinier has files on all Jorgmundgander operations that were at the behest of the Sparrows, then does that mean Anton was lying about Reinier killing Mom?

Conor:I have to think so. We’ll get there, baby. We’ll get you the answers you need.

Star:I’m starting to lose hope, Conor. I thought I could deal without knowing but fuck, it hurts so badly.

Conor:I know. But there are millions of files to work through. Somewhere, we’ll find out what happened to her. I won’t stop until you know the truth.

Star:I love you. Thank YOU.

Conor:You don’t have to thank me. How goes the book launch?

Star:I’m hating every minute of it.

Conor:It must be so hard being a bestselling author. :P

Star:Savannah wrote it.

Conor:Speaking of memoirs, I read Lorelei’s autobiography yesterday.

Star:Ugh. I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I didn’t need to know so much about my dad.

Conor:Lol, yeah, she got… graphic.

Star:Bleugh.

Conor:Surprised you let her publish it.

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