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I don’t know what happened—but I do know it’s probably not good.

Tem’s people are loyal. They wouldn’t leave unless they had to.

“Antonio!” Artemis suddenly calls.

Her volume makes me flinch. She rushes down the hallway and stops at his office.

The door is open, the desk wiped clean. Literally—there’s nothing on it.

“He had a computer,” Reese mumbles behind me.

Artemis whirls around. “How do you know?”

“I was here… an hour ago? Maybe two. I sat in that chair.” He points to the one across from Antonio’s. “We had a conversation and then I left. When he called me back, I figured it was in regard to… that.”

I narrow my eyes.

Artemis seems to be of a similar mind, because she crosses her arms. “What was the conversation?”

His expression blanks out. “Don’t ask me that.”

“Why not?”

“Leave it, Tem.” I pull her from the office and close the door. “Check yours.”

When she twists the knob, the door swings open under her hand. Not locked. And similarly cleaned out.

“We just replaced my computer and his.” Her voice is tight. “The sheriff failed to return what he seized.”

From the warrant…

“Nadine wasn’t much help,” she adds. “I went to her office to try and get some answers, and she was pretty vague. The warrant itself was for our hard drives, but there wasn’t a clear answer why that would be related to one of my brother’s informants. Or his murder.”

“When did you see her?”

“Before…” She gestures vaguely at her collarbone.

The tattoo.

Ah.

“Oh!” She perks up. “I did take photos of her recent emails. And the deleted ones. I don’t have my phone on me, but we can check it later.”

Reese looks like he’s going to say something. He opens and closes his mouth and finally shakes his head. “Never mind.”

“That doesn’t help us find Antonio now,” I point out.

She frowns. “Maybe he’s trying to find someone in the club. We should search it.”

Unease snakes through me. “There’s no one manning the doors, Tem?—”

“I know that.” She flicks her hair over her shoulder. There’s a tightness to her that I didn’t see before, but it seems like she’s stiffer than ever. “But he wouldn’t leave. And he said something about the Cyclopes? In Bow & Arrow?”

“He said something strange was happening in North Falls on our voicemail,” I say.

“And yes, he mentioned Cyclopes to me,” Reese adds.

She pinches the bridge of her nose.

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