‘Hey, boss! It’s Ben. We just got the DNA back on the blood found on your arm, and in the cave. It was deer blood, not human. I hope I’m not bothering you, since you said this is how you rolled. Be safe! Lucifer.’
She actually laughed.
“I’m absolutely not calling him Lucifer,” she said, focused on her team.
“Ben?” Callen asked.
She nodded.
“The blood on me and the cave wasn’t human. It was a scare tactic. Someone’s trying to make it Halloween when it’s still summer,” she admitted, showing Takoda the text so he could feel like he was on the team.
When Ivan turned in the driver’s seat, he had news for her.
“Ethan is en route,” he said. “He’ll be rendezvousing with us shortly.”
She lifted a brow.
What was this?
“Uh, why?” she asked.
He was to the point.
“From what Raphael said, he was going to feed his wife, and show her where the totem pole was going.”
It took her a second.
Then, she remembered.
The memorial library he wanted to put in at the community center—the same one waiting for them right now as they were parked outside of it.
“Okay, that’s fine. Tell Raphael that his wife better get fries with him disregarding my orders for him to stay inside.”
Ivan laughed.
And laughed.
And laughed.
“Oh, what’s it like when someone disregards your orders?” he asked. “That’s so unfamiliar to me.”
She winked at him.
He had a point.
That was how she rolled.
“Okay, team. I’m going to go talk to Elkie,” she stated. “She wanted to see me, and I want to talk to her about her husband and sons. They’re at the top of my list,” she admitted. “After their show at the bar, they warrant some digging.”
Callen lifted a brow.
“They are?”
Elizabeth pulled out her tablet and showed him the people she had on it.
Joshua Stormchaser
Roland Stormchaser