Honestly, to be off for a couple of days, and be able to have some downtime…it was worth it.
Then, she made a decision.
“We’re taking Christopher,” she said. It wasn’t fair to leave him behind because he’d be the odd man out. Ethan and Gene would be kanoodling, and that wasn’t right.
Besides, neither of them minded that kind of third wheel. It was always a good time on a beach.
As they ate their fries, she continued.
“I wrapped up with Elkie, and spoke to the council. Not Lance. He was MIA.”
Rayna was sitting on a log with Uriel right next to her. He had his leg touching hers, and he’d been flirting in the car.
And she was here for it.
She still got the impression that he wasn’t saying something. She could just feel it hanging there.
“What do you know about Abe’s children?” she asked.
Rayna was to the point.
“They are teenage boys, and they are super smart. They tend to be homebodies, and their mother’s shadows. I think they’re sixteen and seventeen?”
That tracked since they were almost eighteen and seventeen according to Abe.
“Do you think they could be snacking on victims?”
She blinked.
“I mean, I didn’t think anyone could be, but here we are,” she admitted. “If they were raised that way…maybe.”
Yeah, she was aware.
Honestly, Elizabeth liked this woman, and when Callen called her husband to run the DNA, she had crossed her fingers it wasn’t Lance.
For Uriel’s sake.
Elizabeth continued.
“What’s tripping me up about them is the fact they would have been young three years ago. Tony and MATE tied the same gnaw marks to a skull that had been in the ground longer.”
That was perplexing.
“Could they have been doing it at fifteen and fourteen?” she asked.
Callen went there.
“You know how hungry teen boys are,” he joked.
She stared at him.
IN.
HORROR.
From where he sat, Takoda nearly choked on his burger, and Ivan had to pat him on the back.
“Too soon?” Callen asked.