Sure enough, everything on top of Wyatt’s desk was glued in place, right down to the hard candies sitting in a glass dish. My mischievous heart was pounding in excitement.
This was hilarious.
A solid prank.
As we investigated, I found an empty carton of superglue inside it’s package in one of the drawers. They’d used his own superglue, which meant they came up with this idea on the fly.
A masterful prankster if I’d ever seen one.
Wyatt did not appreciate the prank.
Even if it’d been done to someone else, he insisted he would not appreciate the prank.
My best friend was a complete and utter buzzkill.
By the end of our desk investigation, he was fuming, spitting mad.
I left him in his office, red in the face, wracking his brain trying to figure out who could have done such a thing.
If he weren’t so angry, he would’ve seen how obvious the answer was. There was only one person we knew who was capable of unlocking any door, no matter how hard the mechanism. And he’d pissed that person off something fierce.
I smiled to myself as I melted into the shadows in the far corner of his office.
Our Key was hilarious.
Chapter 33
Wyatt
Rafeand I had to wait until the weekend to go back to the islands. He’d asked nicely, and Skye agreed we could stay at the apartment. As usual, Zephyr was not happy about it, but he was starting to go easier on Rafe.
I was still the only one on his shit list.
Rafe and I had quickly decided we shouldnotblow up Skye’s life by telling her that her father Ben was probably not her biological father until we had some real answers.
Answers meaning: Levi.
Levi was a complete mystery, and not just because he was supposed to be dead.
Well,missing.
He was only one of two people missing in the aftermath of the massacre. Yes, they’d put all the unidentified pieces of people into the mass grave on Shafer’s island, but they had identified at least one piece of every missing person, which meant they weren’tmissing.
Except for Levi and one other.
Levi, because he was alive, of course. The other missing person had been a kid, but everyone else in that family was dead.
I understood why Skye and Zephyr had decided to hide Levi. Theywere only kids at the time, and they didn’t want to be moved from their home, put into foster care and separated from their comatose father.
“I don’t know about this,” Rafe had said as we looked out over the ocean. “This idea of mine might be a stretch.”
I’d scoffed. “You’ve never cared about that before.”
“I didn’t have a reason to care before.” Rafe had said with a glare.
We had a plan, but it could go to shit at any moment.
Skye always walked the beach at sunset. Aiden was always with her, and Zephyr went with them more often than not. As soon as the apartment was clear in the evening, Rafe was going to shadow-walk us into the basement. Then, we’d question Levi and hopefully get some answers before anyone returned.
