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She smiles at that. "Seems like he was your missing piece," she offers.

"It seems so. Maybe I might be able to fix myself and become Olivia again."

Although her wine glass is empty, she lifts it a toast. "Here's to finding yourself."

"Yes.” I just hope I'm ready for whatever comes next.

ChapterTwenty-Four

Virgo

Cillian walks into the meeting room with a large folder tucked under his arm and closes the door. Dante and I were waiting for him.

"Sorry I'm late, guys. I got stuck in traffic," he apologizes and shrugs out of his jacket.

"No worries," I reply. "Take a seat."

He comes over and sits opposite me, setting his folder down with the others we have on the table. We decided on meeting here at Club X again.

This is one of the rooms we use for our high-profile clients. There are no cameras in here and no way for anyone to listen in.

"Has Olivia remembered anything else?" Cillian asks. I shake my head. "No, only what I told you about me."

As I say that, I tamp down the warmth that comes from knowing she’s really starting to remember me.

It was emotional to watch her realize that I'd been a part of her mind this whole time.

While Dr. Belmont believes the spurt of memories means she might get more breakthroughs with clearer images, I know we're not out of the woods yet.

"I'll visit her tomorrow," Cillian says. "Just to see how she is.”

“Of course,” I tell him.

“It seems that once again, we’re in a time when we need to watch our backs closer.”

I know what he means by the darkness in his voice. He knows our lives are dangerous.

The same way those men were killed, we could be next.

"I've doubled up on security." Dante looks at both of us. "I know you guys have, too, but I've gotten more men to support us. They'll be watching everyone more closely.”

“That will help." I nod my thanks.

"I can't pinpoint what happened in England." Cillian shakes his head. "I hardly spoke to anyone because I didn't want to alert people that I was looking for the guys. I can only assume that my presence there must have set off a chain reaction. Whoever was watching me knew I could only have been there to find them. What doesn't make sense is, why now? Kevin especially would've always been a threat."

I nod, agreeing, but I can't make heads or tails of it either. "Something must have happened in between that time.”

“Maybe something from here," Dante suggests. "But it's going to be difficult to pinpoint what that something is.”

"I agree. That’s why I left some of my men in England," Cillian continues. "The murders have sparked a new trail that maybe we can follow.”

“We've been looking at all correspondence between everyone we're investigating," I tell him. Dante and I started looking the moment we got the news. Even though I was in the Hamptons, it didn't stop me from working. It also didn't stop me from trying to keep Olivia occupied so she wouldn’t worry.

I feel like an asshole for not telling her about Kevin, but it would be the worst thing to happen now if she locked down again.

I know she’d blame herself for his death.

He was safe until we found her.

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