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After all, with the whole deal between Susanna and Dan... you just never know if Yvonne might take it all out on Susie because of Dan.

Ronald shook his head. "Relax. She won't."

"Are you sure?" Stella still sounded worried.

"She won't," Ronald repeated, calm as ever.

Stella sighed, unconvinced.

"She'll just use Susanna as a weapon. Her own little dagger-aimed straight at Dan."

Stella let out a long breath. Yeah... that did sound like something Yvonne would do.

It made her feel a little better, but she couldn't help worrying that Susanna might not be able to handle it. The truth was, Susanna really had zero experience in this sort of thing.

With Yvonne's... intense methods, there was just no telling how rough it'd get for her.

Hull stepped out of the Quinn family's country estate just as his phone started buzzing.

Xander's name lit up the screen. Hull answered, and the tension was obvious from the first second.

"Stop looking," Xander said, voice ice-cold.

Hull's jaw clenched. "And what's that supposed to mean, Mr. Schultz?"

alive," Xander replied, with a hint of a smirk you could hear right through the

had spent the last few days turning the whole city upside down looking for Susanna. Xander knew exactly why he was so desperate he was terrified Yvonne would do

tightened on the phone. "So you know where they

Xander just grunted.

Hull's face darkened. "Where?"

married, after all. Hull's people hadn't been able to track down Yvonne anywhere, but Xander apparently

up in twenty-seven days," Xander

"Twenty-seven days?" Hull echoed.

"Mhm."

at

who, along with Barnaby,

had slept much, all focused on finding

eye on Xander." Damn, he

show, but looking at things now... it

ask anything else, Xander hung

happened with Stella all those years ago? But t Susanna was

if both of them started out

around Ronald-she'd been exposed to all that craziness, at

training camps, let her play around. Susanna, though? She'd never even seen any of it. Was she really not going to totally freak

throb. Silas broke the silence. "Mr.

waiting for? Let's just go ask Mr. Schultz to give

a look like he was a complete idiot. Go ask Xander?

a hawk. "Keep eyes on Xander at all times." Going straight to demand Susanna back was pointless-and

Silas nodded. "Got it."