Chapter 823

I rolled my eyes so hard they almost got stuck. Hayden really had way too much time on his hands. Decorating an urn and stashing a data sync device in a jewelry box? Was this some kind of cosmic joke? Then again, maybe he'd done it to throw people off-make them think it was just a random trinket and not something insanely valuable.

"What the hell is this?" Cole snapped, reaching for the box.

I smacked his hand away. "Chill, Drago. What's the rush? Don't you afraid there's a scorpion inside or something?"

He gave me an annoyed side-eye. "Just open it already. Hayden's brain must be a circus to come up with this nonsense."

Ignoring him, I pulled the tiny red box from its fluffy nest of white feathers.

It was way too light. No way it held the device.

Still, I flipped it open-and, of course, my eyes nearly popped out of my head.

"A ring?" Cole said, his voice somewhere between disbelief and irritation.

ring. And judging by the size of that rock, it could

those weird high-tech matching rings, and now this bling. What was

it up like he expected it

the jewelry

up nothing, he grabbed the box and

replaced

wasn't done. Grabbing the urn, he dumped its contents onto the ground, sifting

he kicked the urn toward

to

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the urn into jagged shards. But even broken into pieces, it revealed no hidden compartments, no secrets. Cole's fists clenched at his sides,

Almost.

had no choice but to accept the truth, no matter how

told me the urn held the device. If it wasn't here, where

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