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“You saw her this morning,” Sagan says.
“Saw who?” I ask, not looking him in the eye. I don’t officially know if he’s talking about Briar or Esme.
“Where did she go?”
I don’t answer, but I keep washing the truck.
“You know where she lives!” Sagan bellows, pointing at me.
“No comment.” Now that I’ve done some googling, I understand even more about who Esme Bryant is. She’s a knownrecluse. After her stint as a model in Europe, she had some kind of breakdown, and now she never leaves the house.
Except to get tattoos from strangers, apparently. If Sagan learns who she really is...
“I have to find her.”
“Do you even know her name, dude?”
“She said her name was Esme.”
Damn. It’s only a matter of time before he figures out she’s the Bryant heiress.
“Did she say anything else?” I ask.
Sagan takes a step closer. “What are you not telling me?”
“I’m not not telling you anything.”
The tattooed man growls low in his chest. “You’re holding out on me. I thought we were friends.”
“We are.”
“Then you gotta help me.”
I set the hose aside and start to work on the engine with the foaming brush, my pal Sagan hot on my heels. “If I help you find her, then Briar could lose her job.”
“Who?”
“Briar! The girl I was helping last night when Esme disappeared.”
“I don’t remember another girl.”
I snort. “Red hair. White sneakers. A little jumpy.” The most gorgeous creature who ever set foot in Fate? That part, I don’t say out loud.
“OK. Maybe she did mention she had an intern,” he says, scratching his head.
Sagan already knows too much.
I say nothing more.
“Fine,” he says, jutting out his chin. “I’ll just follow you the next time you go to see the intern.”
Trying hard to appear nonchalant, I work the soapy brush over the tires. “I can’t stop you. And I did not officially hear that.”
What am I saying? I’m just going to leave him to his own devices? This is all kinds of wrong.
“Rowan, listen. You saw us together, right?”
“Yeah.” I put the soap brush away and fire up the hose again, and begin rinsing the engine. Sagan is still following me around the garage as I work.
