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“They’ve been all over town about three times, whipping out that picture and asking people if they’ve seen him.I’ve told her at least a dozen times that I’ve never seen him.But that doesn’t stop her.She’s also looking for a woman and a man.I don’t know what to think about that, but if you were to ask me, it seems sort of fishy.They’re a might too old to be his parents, then all of a sudden today they are his grandparents.What’s this world coming to, Mr.Savage?”Mr.Moore shook his head in disgust.Tucker said that he didn’t know but would look into it if necessary.“You go on and do that for us.She’s being a pain in the ass, pardon my speech, but just look at them every day—I’d probably be doing the same thing if it were my boy.I know that, but why don’t they move on?We’ve done told them that we’ve never seen him.Now, this man and woman are the ones they’re searching for.”
“Could it be the same man who shot up Travelers the other day?”It was funny that she was just going to say that when one of the others said it first.“I heard he was looking for a boy, too.You think those people are out to kidnap all our kids?Well, they come around my house, and I’ll show them how we greet the door in his town.I’ll blow them away.”
“Mr.Jacobs, you don’t want to be killing anyone.It might be all the stress of losing their son or grandson.I don’t know which.”No one seemed to have any idea what their names were, either.Kaida thought that odd.To be showing off a picture without any means of contacting them if they were to see the boy.She wanted to race home now and tell Matt what they had discovered, but they needed to be calm about this.Calm and collected until they had more news.
After getting their things bagged up, they headed out the door.Having pizzas tonight seemed slightly spoiled because of the people around town.But she’d bet anything that if Matt were to walk down the main street right now, no one would tell the Connors.She was going to ask him about his grandparents, too.
“I’ve lived with them all my life, and they told me that I was their son.It never occurred to me that they might be my grandparents until just now.”He handed back her phone with a confused look on his face.“How would we find out if they are my parents or not?I mean, not that I ever looked for one, but I never saw a birth certificate when I was living with them.”
After getting his birth date and social security number, Brenin started to do a search on him.Coming up with the name of the hospital became something of a trial, as he couldn’t remember anyone mentioning that.After about two hours of searching and making pizzas, they had little more information than when they started.Just the name of the hospital that he might have been born in, and a record of his social being used about fifty years before he was born.It was making more questions than answers, she thought.
“I have a plan.”Cassian said he wasn’t going to tell anyone his plan in the event that it didn’t work.She was all right with that, and so was everyone else.About an hour after they’d exhausted every little bit they could find out, one of the members from the local pack came to the house with a bunch of pictures.She worked in the hotel and was a cleaning lady for them.
Getting the information hadn’t been all that difficult.All she’d had to have done was go in like she was cleaning, finding the paperwork, and taking pictures.After tidying up the room, she left and finished out her shift.Kaida thought that it was just too easy to get the information from the room and decided that she was going to use the safe in the room when she had something to hide.
“I have DNA, too, that I found in the bathroom.The mister must be a diabetic, and when he pricks his finger, it leaves me enough blood to get some information from that.”Kaida shivered, thinking of all the things that were left behind when people stayed at hotels.“I have a friend that I’m sending this off to, and when we get the results back, we’ll have a better understanding.”
Beth was able to take Matt’s DNA, too, and that was sent off as well.Once they got the results back, in a couple of weeks, they were told, then they could work from there.At least they’d know how or even if he was related to the elderly couple at all.
In addition to the things that she located, there were things in the room that had startled her.There were handcuffs as well as chloroform.A body bag, too, that was still in the package.All she could think about now was that she was thrilled that she’d never given them any information when she’d seen them today or the other day.These people weren’t right in the head, and she was slightly afraid of what they might do in order to get Matt back to them.
“There is no record of birth filed in the county where he was born.There are no files with the Connors’ name on them either.No homes, no driver’s license.They have never voted either, as far as I can tell.I can’t find a place where they have voted or even registered to vote with their registration on it.”She asked what that meant.“They aren’t real.At least as far as the county is concerned.”
The more they dug, the deeper they were in with questions.If he were their child, there should have been something that would have had his name on it.There wasn’t anything.The car that they drove around was a rental, but it wasn’t registered to anyone they could find.Just a post office box number that didn’t exist either.
Digging into Jason’s life.They found more information on him than she could have imagined.He had convictions all up both his arms.Armed Robbery, solicitation, hit and run, as well as kidnapping.That was all there was in the top few of the list, and she sat down at the table.
“How does he keep getting out of jail?It looks to me like he’s been let out at least a dozen times after only serving a few weeks.Who is releasing him?And why?”No one had an answer, and she knew that they wouldn’t.“It’s too bad we don’t know anyone with…maybe I can do it.”
“Maybe you can do what?”She explained to them how she needed to find Skye and that she’d only had to touch her before she was able to not just figure out who she was, but also that she needed her help.“It’s worth a shot.What do you need?”
“I’m not sure.Let me just think about this for a minute.”She sat down with all the paperwork that they had on the man and the older couple and started touching things.She could get little bits of information on them but nothing more.When she picked up the DNA package, she felt a swarm of information roll over her until she had to let it go.She looked up at Tucker.
“It’s bad, isn’t it?”She nodded, and he sat down beside her.“All right.Tell me, and we’ll work from there.Or you tell me what I need to do, and I’ll do it.I trust you with my life, love, and we can do this together.”
Almost as soon as he touched her with his hand, she knew that he was getting all the information that she’d found.Even Matt’s real name and that of the people to whom he’d been born.
“They killed them.Like they were nothing, they killed his parents to get to the boy when they found out about how smart he was and what he could do.”She nodded and waited for him to continue.“They killed that young couple just because they had a smart son, and they wanted him for his magic.”
“Not just that.They wanted his inheritance.However, they were never able to collect on it due to the fact that they’d have to admit who Trevor—his real name, was and how he’d come to be with him.Greed and evilness.If that wasn’t enough, they stole all the things that he had at his house and took them with them.Wiping out all evidence of the boy even being there.The couple is buried under their home so that they could keep a good eye on them, never being found.”
“Christ.”Tucker got up to pace.He was tossing out comments like he was giving this a great deal of thought and tossing them away nearly in the same breath.He was pissed, she could tell that, and worst of all, she didn’t know how they could make the Connors pay for what they’d done.“He was only one, so it stands to reason that he’d probably not remember his own parents.Or he does, and that’s what is keeping him up at night.I know he has nightmares.I hear him crying out when he goes to sleep.”
“We have to do something.I don’t know that much about laws to know where to even begin.”He said that he might well know someone.“Good.But before we do anything, we’re going to have to tell Skye and Trevor what we figured out.And how.It’s the least we can do to keep them safe if they know what they’re up against.”
“I agree.”He continued to pace the room, and when he stood in front of her again, she knew that he’d hit on something, but wasn’t very happy with it.“If she were a mate to one of my cousins, this would be so much better for her.But they all said that they didn’t think she was and—”
“Didn’tthinkshe was?”He nodded, then smiled.“So there is a chance like you didn’t know that she’s someone’s mate, and they just don’t know how to figure it out.Christ, Tucker, if I could find your parents right now, I’d dig them up and kill them again.Who treats their children like they did and think that it’s all right?”
“Not just my parents but all of our parents.I think they were sick with money and power, and it went to their head.”She agreed with him.“There are a couple of things that I can take care of right now, but in the meantime, you do your thing with whomever you thought could help.Tonight, we’ll sit down with Trevor and Skye and tell them what we’ve figured out.Maybe they’ll have some more information once we start telling them what we’ve figured out.”
He kissed her on her mouth and left her there.She wondered if there would ever be a time when she didn’t want him to leave her.Things were heating up concerning the young man and his guardian.She only hoped that she could keep them safe until such time that they could figure out if they were mates or not with one of the others.
She liked Skye and hoped that they could be long-lasting friends.If only they could get thethings cleared up with the couple and Jason.They were going to have to go and soon.Kaida didn’t even care if the lot of them were killed or put into prison, so long as they were out of their lives.
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Skye wasn’t sure if what they were telling her was the truth of things, but she also had no reason to not believe them.To think that the boy she’d been taking care of for the last few years wasn’t even their son or grandson, and he had magic, too.She wondered for a moment if she had been caring for him or if he was caring for her.It seemed that he was a good deal smarter than she was in all things.
