Page 190 of Adored
Outside of the gate, they heard Diablo neigh, and make a happy sound, so they could assume Hemmingway was saying goodbye to him too.
Gamble broke it to him.
“I know where the key is,” he admitted. “Hemmingway just told me,” he stated.
Poe turned.
“What?”
Gamble took his hand, and they moved around the pile of dirt toward the headstone with Hemmingway’s name and day of death.
“Forgive me, Poe,” Gamble said, right before he used his knife and popped the medal off.
Poe moved closer.
“He was pointing at it,” Gamble said. “If I were Hemmingway, I’d put the key with something that would make sure it was safe. It didn’t register before, but your father picked this medal and put it on the cross. I think he knew, or Hemmingway told him.”
Using the blade, he placed the metal on the stone and popped it open. That’s when they saw the sim card sized chip inside.
It fell into Gamble’s hand.
“Holy shit! You found it!”
Gamble was aware.
Only, now, he had a bigger issue.
Going to the dead man, he rooted around in his pocket, and he found his phone.
He might not have known numbers a week ago, but he’d memorized one when he left the US to come here. So, he made a call.
Elizabeth answered on the second ring.
“Hey, I have a problem.”
Why wasn’t she surprised?
The only people that called her more were her children.
“What happened, Gamble?” she asked, ready to get the bomb dropped on her. It was rare a Hunter called with a‘problem’that they couldn’t handle.
They tended to handle situations themselves, and she cleaned up the mess.
“Von got to us. We were drugged, but we escaped and are okay.”
She was horrified.
“Oh, Jesus.”
Gamble kept talking.
“Only, now, we need help.”
She was curious.
“What?”
This wasn’t a situation he could handle on his own. They’d left one hell of a trail right to them.
