Canyon’s brows drew together, but he didn’t seem angry, or about to explode. He seemed… slightly confused maybe.
Timber put an arm over the back of the seat. “The plot thickens. Any idea what would make him bite some other female, thinking it’s you?”
Sage knew. They all knew. “My nana did something to him.”
“That’s what Trevor and the others think, and that’s the only reason Harlan didn’t kill him.”
Sage looked out the front window, her mind whirling.Why did she have a batshit crazy elder? What was the old lady trying to do?! Didn’t she have any decency?! Was she completely out of her mind?!
“Interesting…” Canyon said, his voice carefully neutral.
“Wulf, show the Vice Unit’s cellblock,” Timber said.
The image changed to show a single cell with a big male laying on the bunk, faced away from the camera. Even from the back, Sage could tell it was Conri. He had short brown hair and a broad back. The image changed to show the sitting area around the cell, and Sage did a double take—Conri was sitting outside the cell as well! She blew out a noisy breath, realizing that must be Conri’s twin brother, Bruin. Bruin sat on the edge of his chair, deep in conversation with a female in the chair next to him. She wore her honey-colored hair in a single braid and was dressed in a long brown skirt with a flowy forest green top. Sage leaned close to the image, studying her.
“He bit her the day before yesterday, and he’s been sleeping since then. The cat doctor says there’s nothing physically wrong with him. He’ll carry on a conversation if you force him to, but he talks in circles and he doesn’t remember biting Eventine or what happened to him before that—where he was all those days he was missing.”
“He was missing?” Sage asked.
“Practically all last week.”
Sage bit her lip, indecision wracking her, as she connected the man’s wallet and phone she’d seen before she’d gone to treatment.They had to have been Conri’s.Her crazy-ass Nana had really kidnapped someone.
Sage waved her hands toward Timber, suddenly frantic. “Nobody else in my family has anything to do with Nana—with Abigail White. She works alone. Completely alone. She always has. The rest of us are just trying to… survive.”
Timber nodded. “I’ll pass the message along.”
On Wulf’s screen, Bruin and the female continued to talk. He put his head in his hands, and she rubbed his arm and shoulders.
“That’s Willow. She’s got empath powers,” Canyon said. He turned away and scanned the entrance asking, “Who all is here?”
“Trevor and Wade are both off on something top-secret. Mac’s gone, too. He and Rogue are up the bluff with Beckett and Cerise and some others. Everyone else is at VF or just gone. Rockford agreed to take a walk so this is a perfect time.”
Canyon held a hand up. “Let’s do it.”
Timber fist-bumped him. Fists still touching, they both looked at Sage.
“Oh! Okay.” She fist-bumped them.
Timber climbed out of the vehicle and headed for the building.
77—Prisoner Two
Sage sat quietly in the back seat, her eyes on the back of Canyon’s head. She tried to catch a glimpse of him in the rearview mirror, but he didn’t look at her. She wanted to think of something to say but couldn’t.
Canyon spoke. “Wulf, stop the video for the Receiving desk and the cellblock for the next 30 minutes, and delete the last 10 minutes.”
:Accomplished—
“Show a timer at 30 minutes, give us alarms at 15 minutes and 20 minutes.”
Thirty minutes showed on the screen, counting down. The door opened and Timber came out with Rhogun, handcuffed in front. Rhogun turned his face to the sun and smiled, eyes closed, and Timber let him have a moment. He looked good. His red hair was longer than he normally wore it, and so was his beard, but he looked healthy. His ever-present eyepatch made him look rough around the edges, especially in the drab prisoner jumpsuit. The males hurried to the truck.
Timber opened the passenger door and helped Rhogun inside, then slammed the door and got in next to Sage, pushing the robot into the middle.
“Fox!” Canyon said, clasping hands with Rhogun over the center console, the cuffs clanking.
“Wolf,” Rhogun said, smiling fondly at Canyon.
