Zane flips him off.
Dutch glances at me. In the night, his amber eyes remind me of a lion’s. “Any update with J?”
“She said she needed three days.”
“Are you sure one girl working on this is enough?” Zane asks, deep worry lines appearing on his forehead. “Shouldn’t we pay a suite of IT guys?”
“We did. They sucked,” Dutch grunts.
“Then we get more guys. Different guys.”
“Like who?” Dutch asks.
“I don’t know. Smart people. Like from one of those big tech companies. The guy that makes phones or the guy who builds rockets.”
“Yeah,” Dutch says sarcastically, “let’s just call up the billionaire who builds rockets and tell him to decrypt some code to find our wives. Great plan, Zane.”
My brother’s back stiffens. “I don’t see you coming up with any better ideas.”
“I’m doing everything Ifreakingcan to find my wife.”
“So am I!” Zane yells.
“Enough.”
Dutch and Zane look away, breathing hard.
“Blaming each other won’t bring Cadence and Grey back,” I remind them.
“I still don’t think we should trust it all to J,” Zane insists. “At least we got references for that PI company we hired. We have no idea who this girl is. Where did she come from? What’s her actual name? Do we knowanythingabout her?”
Dutch keeps his mouth shut, silently agreeing.
“Why’d we just let this stranger waltz into our lives? Why’d we believe her when she said she could save us?” Zane throws his hands up.
“Because Finn vouched for her.”
Silence falls.
The weight on my shoulders gets heavier.
“Fine.” Zane slouches in his chair. “At this point, why not let her do it? I’d even trust Jinx to help us.”
I sit up straighter. I don’t think the timing will get any better than this.
“Guys.” I wait until both my brothers are looking at me. “She is.”
“She is what?” Zane scrunches his nose.
Dutch freezes. “Jinx?”
Zane shoots to his feet. “You’re in contact with Jinx?”
“I thought she went ghost after sending us the kidnapping video?” Dutch growls. “You were communicating with her, and youkeptit from us?”
“I’ve been looking for Jinx for a long time. Long before Cadence and Grey were taken,” I say. “I wanted to know how she knew so much about us.”
“And?” Zane motions for me to continue.
