Page 27 of Seductive Sin
“I trust Hawk,” I say.
“Not Eagle?”
I shake my head vigorously. “Eagle’s a loaded pistol. I love him. But no, I do not trust him.”
“Hawk then.”
“Hawk isn’t a detective, Savannah. Leif is the best at what he does.”
“All right.”
I pause and scratch my chin. “Actually, there is someone else.”
“Who?”
“Lance at the tattoo shop. He’s a hacker. His skills are different from Leif’s, but he might be able to help.”
“Why not him then?”
“Because I don’t want anyone else to know we’re here. Why we’re here. What good does it do to be hiding in plain sight if you tell people you’re here?”
“Then I don’t know what to do,” she says. “You need someone who can find out what’s going on with my family and the McAllisters. Why they need Miles and me together.”
“It can’t be you,” I say.
“Funny that you say that, because I was just going to suggest me.”
“Yeah, that’s not happening.”
“It has to be someone who can get into my home, who can look through my dad’s documents.”
“And there’s no one else?”
She bites her lip.
“Who, Savannah? Who can do it?”
“There’s one person, but I don’t know how to get in touch with him. I haven’t heard from him in a while. I don’t even know where he is.”
Jealousy erupts in my gut. “He?”
“It’s not what you think. I’m talking about my brother Vinnie.”
“Perfect,” I say. “You don’t want Leif involved in this, but this is something he can do from the safety of his own home. He can find your brother.”
“No one knows where my brother is,” she says. “Don’t you think my family has tried to find him?”
“Are you sure he’s still alive?”
Her eyes close, and when she opens them, a lone tear falls out of one.
I gently wipe the tear from her cheek. “I’m sorry, Savannah.”
“It’s something that’s crossed my mind more than once,” I say. “But I do truly believe he’s alive. I think we would know if he’d died. I’m sure he’s put something in place so that we’d be notified. Or at least that I would be notified.”
“But you’re not sure?”
“He’s my big brother, Falcon. He’s always held a special place in his heart for me. When he left the family, he and I had a talk. He told me that even though he wouldn’t be here, he would always be in my heart and I’d be in his. That it killed him most to leave me.”