Page 502 of Chaos has a Name
“I can’t wait to get out of here,” he admitted. “It’s like coming back to a place that still haunts me.”
Oh, and that was why she wasn’t busting balls about this. Cyra had been killed and Bethe nearly died in that house fire. That was a whole lot of past baggage.
“Well, you just gave me more information, and I’ll check it out. This might help us blow this wide open.”
He hoped so.
Sitting not far away, next to Gene, Ethan was listening to his partners talk, and his heart sank. When Gene squeezed his hand, reassuringly, Ethan was borderline panicking.
How could he stay here?
How?
How could he tell her he wanted to be here when he knew they were all struggling?
He was so torn over this.
Ethan knew he had to put his family first, even if he felt like he deserved this. There was no way he could stay and send them home.
It would break him.
God.
Why was it always his place between two choices that broke his soul into pieces?
Elizabeth continued her call.
“I love you, Christopher. I’ll check-in. Hang in there,” she said, reassuringly.
Only, no one bought that peptalk.
They were all feeling the same thing.
Hanging up, she focused on her team.
“Callen, who did we hire to work at the clinic?” she asked. “I know we staffed it, and I know they had to have been cleared.”
Oh, well, he had bad news for her.
“We didn’t have a lot of choices,” he said, pulling up information on the tablet as Ivan turned the car around. They’d been heading back toFBI Westso she could privately set up her whiteboard and think all of this through.
Now, it looked like she wasn’t going to be doing that, and it was rare she didn’t.
Elizabeth had a process.
Only, this mess was tying Native-to-Native, and it was beginning to be a hot mess. It was akin to that corkboard with red string going all over the place from picture to picture as the investigator tried to connect the dots.
Chaos was winning this one.
For.
Damn.
Sure.
Callen read off some names for her.
“Doctor Sitsi Dreamwalker is the doctor who ended up taking the job. He’s not from this reservation, but instead one from back North.”
