Well, it wasn’t like she was wrong, now was she?
It had been a while since she visited Sam or her father’s grave, and her mother’s.
Yeah, a long time.
She did check in on Catherine, but that was because she wasn’t far from where they spent most of their time, as of late.
“Anyway, he was out of it. No one drug test him because he won’t pass.”
She snorted.
“He’s got a license from the state to use Peyote for ceremonial use. Now, if Callen shows up, test him. He’s got sticky fingers.”
Oh, they were well aware.
Blackhawks were Blackhawks.
That was for damn sure.
Ivan continued.
“Benning checked in. The kids are doing their schoolwork, the tutors showed up, and one quit. So it’s a good Monday in your world.”
She sighed and rubbed her temples.
“What did my sons do now?” she asked.
Ian rubbed a hand up and down her back to keep her calm. There was no doubt in his mind that she was going to blow. One more bad piece of news, and he worried about her sanity.
And her control.
She needed a case, and to be focused on something. Only, the last few had been cakewalks for her.
Sadly, for everyone else, Elizabeth liked a tough one—AKA a dangerous one.
“I know what you’re thinking,” he admitted. “Oddly, it wasn’t the boys,” he said. “The woman went to the bathroom, and she got locked in, and the lights went out. She felt cold, and swore she saw something in the dark. She screamed so loud that Benning heard her, and then, and only then, she was able to get out.”
Elizabeth lifted a brow.
Uh, that sounded…bad.
“I’d like to say it was the boys,” Ivan admitted, “but the bathroom locks from the inside, and Caryn said that EJ and CJ were with their tutor, and no one moved. We checked to make sure, and the kids didn’t do shit this time. I know how that isn’t normally the case.”
Shit.
“So you’re telling me a ghost spooked our tutor?” she asked. “And now we’re down a tutor? What class?”
He reassured her.
“It was for the younger kids, so everything. We’re already on it, but more likely than anything, she heard the place was haunted, accidentally locked herself in, and the wiring is faulty.”
Yeah, just like it was faulty at the castle in Scotland.
She wasn’t buying that.
Not.
At.
