“I was able to track the metadata and confirmed it was taken the morning you left to play Ashford. I confirmed with Talon when you left town. Was she there when you left?”
I swear under my breath. She was curled up in my bed.
Someone snuck into my house and got into my shit while Brinley was there alone.
When she was there, where she should’ve been safe.
I glance down the hallway toward Coach’s closed office door again. That wasn’t an accident.
“Where are you?” Reed asks.
“Just leaving practice now. Still at the rink.”
“Don’t confront him alone,” Reed says. “You don’t know how deep this goes yet.”
I let out a slow breath.
“I’ll call you right back. I need to call the guys.”
I hang up and push off the wall.
Whatever this is, it’s not about hockey anymore.
I don’t go back to Coach’s office. I just keep walking out the door and toward my truck, pulling up the group chat. My thumb hovers for a half second before I hit call.
I don’t want to sit on this, and I don’t want to sit on this alone.
“Goddammit,” I grunt.
Talon answers first. “What happened?”
“Put me on speaker,” I say, knowing he’s with Kade and Owen.
There’s some shuffling, and then I hear Kade’s voice in the background.
“All right, we’re here. What’s going on? You good?”
“No, I don’t think I am,” I say honestly, as Reed joins the call. “It’s his brother.”
“Whose?” Owen asks.
“Coach’s.”
There’s a pause.
“Wait, you mean the cop brother?” Kade asks.
“Yeah.”
I drop back into the seat, staring at the steering wheel as Reed recounts what he told me about tracing the details on the phone and tying it all to his brother.
Silence stretches for a beat before Reed says, “And that’s not all.”
I shift my gaze to the video call, staring at him.
Reed’s jaw tightens slightly. “There are a few transactions I flagged. I can’t prove it yet, but I’m starting to think he’s tied to the same bullshit we connected to Wren’s dad last year… and it doesn’t look clean.”
He pauses before adding, “After Dave put up the cameras, I’ve been keeping an eye on the footage. Just in case anything out of the norm came up.”
