Knowing Kira’s luck, it was both.
“You could say that.”Kira glanced at Dylan, waiting to see if he would protest.When he didn’t, she relaxed and smiled at her friend.“Can we talk inside?”
Jin swallowed, looking a little more alert as he took in Dylan’s stance.Wordlessly, he stepped aside.
Kira walked into the room, Graydon following.
Jin shot Dylan a look that said to stay put before shutting the door in his face.
Kira looked back.“Is that wise?Take it from me—oshota get funny about being cut out of the loop.”
“Unlike you, I don’t find trouble everywhere I go.Dylan knows my limits.He’ll understand.”
The look on Dylan’s face as Jin had shut the door might contradict that assertion.
“I thought you trusted him with your secrets?”Kira probed.
Jin collapsed onto his bed, reaching back to grab a cozy looking blanket that definitely hadn’t come standard with the room.“There’s trust and then there’s Trust with a capital T.I have a feeling this situation merits the second.”
“Astute as ever,” Kira murmured.
“Yeah, yeah.I’m a genius.That’s nothing new.”Jin snuggled deeper into his blanket until only his eyes and a palm sized portion of his face was visible.“I take it you got something from Chance and Harper.”
“Check our drop site.There should be something there.”
Jin definitely had eyes in the hotel.Possibly the wider station as well.Smart of him to station some of his spawn in the hidden passages too.
“A present?For me?”
“Tied with a bow and wrapped up nice and tight.”
Jin was already moving, grabbing the scroll off the bed next to him and navigating to the website they used for information dead drops.It was in a defunct chat room for a game nobody played anymore.
There were several such sites they used.All meant to help them pass information along without it leading back to the relevant parties.
This one was devoted to Chance, Harper and the rest of the children they’d saved.It was how they’d kept in touch for all these years.Selene had access to it too and used it to pass along updates on the children.
“This is serious business, Nixxy.”Jin sounded distracted as he scanned the scroll.“Selene must be beside herself at the risks they’re taking.”
“That’s the thing about children.You don’t get to decide what they grow up to be.”
They did that all on their own.All you could do was hope you’d given them the tools they needed to survive and thrive.
“Their level of information gathering is pretty impressive.Months of work went into this,” Jin commented.“If I handed everything over to Jace, he could probably earn his way back into Centcom’s good graces within the next year.”
“It’s that good?”
“You’d be proud.They’ve mapped out most of the trafficking ring.All that’s left to do is to roll them up.”
“Anything helpful?”
Jin nodded.“A few things.”
“Before that, are Bez and the rest back?”Kira asked.
“What makes you think I would know?”
Kira gave him a look.“You knew about Chance and Harper.”
