That made her stomach shrink. “What are you saying?”
“Think, Jaynie. Whoever framed Mordacity has to be a League member or have a really strong connection.”
Hauk nodded. “He’s right. You’d have to be on their servers and system to deactivate that button on a contract.”
Now they were all baffled. “Who in the League would have something against us?”
“Did I just hear Hauk with you?” Jinx asked.
Why was she even surprised? “How do you know Hauk?”
“We have a mutual friend.”
“I’m here, Shadowborne. What do you need?”
“Feel better knowing you’re with them. Can you please keep them from doing something stupid?”
“I doubt it, but I can try.”
“Good . . . I’m going to pull my team together and look into this. Stay out of trouble and keep your heads low while I contact them. Can you do that?”
Jayne growled at Jinx’s request. “We need to know who’s after us and why.”
“I know, but you can’t access League files and you know it. You’ll get killed the moment you access them. Stay put and try to find some patience.”
As much as she hated to admit it, he was right. “Fine. Don’t take too long.”
Jinx cut the transmission and cursed at his luck. He needed to contact his League compadres, but if he didn’t call and let Eve know that her sister was all right, she might make good her threat to castrate him.
He punched in her frequency and waited.
“Did you find her?”
The fact that Eve didn’t even ask about him told him how worried she was. She was always terrified of losing him. “Not exactly.”
“What does that mean?”
He really wanted to tell her to calm down, but his past experience with that stupidity caused him to bite his tongue. “I just spoke to her.”
“Where is she?”
“Living on Outpost Jayne, as usual. Not listening to any reason . . . which I take is an Erixour specialty?”
“Don’t, Jinx. Not in the mood.”
“I know, baby. Just trying to lighten your stress.”
“Then get my sister back here so that I can kick her scrawny ass.”
“Working on it. She’s safe for the moment and I need to make some calls before she runs through her tiny patience and does something profoundly stupid to make us both crazy.”
She sighed. “Fine. You be careful.”
“You, too.” He ended the call, then pressed the digits for his safety valve. The one person besides Eve that he knew he could trust with anything. Which was insane really, given that Savage was one of the most ruthless assassins the League had ever trained.
None of them were ever supposed to care about anyone else. Kill or be killed.
Yet Savage answered immediately. “Problem?”
