Page 293 of Chaos has a Name
Gene was honest.
“This is going to be a rough one,” Gene admitted. “Like ridden hard, no lube, and put away less than satisfied—that kind of rough.”
On that, Callen agreed.
Normally, by the end of day one, they’d have suspects, and would be researching people.
That hadn’t happened.
They’d still not checked out the scene where Thomas Adsila went MIA, or gotten any forensics done. That put them behind, which meant a hard push tomorrow.
It was going to be a busy, busy day.
Call it a hunch.
To help their team out, Callen began snapping pictures and sending them directly to his brother’s phone.
Why not upload?
Well, maybe because he didn’t want Elizabeth freaking out or being worked up when she saw them. No one wanted her to see that threat, and know it was a possibility.
Coming here was to save Wyler, and agreeing to help Rayna had put a bullseye on her back.
They knew exactly when Ethan received them because Callen’s phone began ringing.
Here it came.
Now, someone else was going to be just as agitated as they were seeing this.
“We already know,” he said to his brother before the man could say anything.
Ethan’s text had been crystal clear.
Oh, well, the more he saw, the more Ethan was freaked out.
“This is bad,” he admitted. “I don’t like that she’d been tagged for some sick and twisted cannibal snack fest, but I really don’t like a message written in…is that blood?” he asked.
Honestly, they weren’t sure yet, but that’s what they were thinking. It was smelling a lot like pennies in there, and that was always a dead giveaway.
“It’s been swabbed, and we’ll find out,” Callen offered. “If I were to guess, I’d say it is.”
Yeah, that made him twitchy.
Ethan was definitely concerned, and his mind was going a mile a minute.
There was no way he’d not do the job to keep Elizabeth safe. InPhiladelphia, he’d been off his game because it involved him, but someone threatening his wife?
Oh.
Hell.
No.
He’d do the job because she was the singular most important person in their family.
Elizabeth held the family together.
Callen was to the point. There was no time to sugarcoat it.
