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“Uneventful.” I narrow my eyes. “Was it helpful?”
I can’t really put into words exactly how it felt to sit across from him. He’s working with Ouranos… he wants to take over Sterling Falls. It’s only a miracle they haven’t broken into Bow & Arrow and delved into Terror.
“Let me see it.” He grabs my jacket and paws at the pockets. He pulls out the phone he had given me earlier and plugs it into a cord protruding from one of the computers. “Looks like it was a successful connection. Congratulations, Reese, you now have a clone of Kade’s phone.”
One step closer to Ouranos.
“What did he want anyway?”
I just shake my head and drag out a chair. I can’t very well say he wanted tocheck up on me. That sounds lame, even in my head.
Kade called Artemis’ phone, which was forwarded to a new burner of mine. She couldn’t take it to Isle of Paradise, so Daniel set it up to help keep our locations a secret. At the same time, we didn’t want her brother or his friends to call and not be able to reach anyone.
So I answered his call, and it was only arguments from Daniel and Antonio that this wouldhelpus that convinced me to go.
Kade let me name the place and time, and I showed up an hour early to scope out the empty boardwalk in North Falls. Then made him wait an extra twenty minutes before I left my hiding place and joined him on the bench.
Vittoria glances over at us, a small frown on her lips. I meet her gaze and shrug. I don’t have answers. Just theories that I’m not ready to share.
“I’ve got a boat,” Daniel suddenly announces.
I freeze. “What?”
“Well.” He clears his throat. “We’ve got a boat. Coming here.”
“Here, like…”
“It’s not really ideal,” he admits. “But there’s a ladder that they can get close to and get up the cliff.”
“Who?”
He frowns, like I should already know who he’s talking about. “Jace, Wolfe, and Apollo, obviously. And Kora, I suspect.”
I wonder if they mind that we’ve moved into their house.
“When?” Vittoria asks.
“Within the hour.” Daniel glances at me. “And if someone wanted to go visit Artemis on Isle of Paradise… We now have a way of getting there.”
My gut churns, and I nod once. My throat closes, rendering me effectively mute.
Vittoria smiles. Just a little hint of one. “It’ll be nice to have them back. Antonio is upstairs—Reese, could you tell him?”
I nod and point to the clone of Kade’s phone. “Let me know if he uses it.”
With Daniel’s confirmation, I leave them and head upstairs.
We left the primary bedroom alone—it would’ve been really fucking weird for one of us to take their extra-wide bed—but there were a few guest rooms. Three, to be exact. Plus an office downstairs that can hold an air mattress, which wouldn’t be off-putting since Daniel seems more inclined to do his work at the kitchen table instead of at the desk in the office.
I knock on Antonio’s door and relay the message through it, then continue to mine.
I close myself in and lean my forehead against the wall. The blinds are still shut, the curtains drawn, and the room is dark. I blow out a long, slow breath.
If they’re coming here… Perhaps I should borrow that boat and go visit Artemis. See how Saint is doing with the memory thing.
Make sure they haven’t killed each other.
But how will Apollo, Jace, and Wolfe receive me?
