Love Unspoken

Chapter 1214

Quinn eyeballed her for what felt like forever and then blurted out, "If you wanna make more cash, just spill the beans. No point in hiring you as a translator otherwise."

Casey looked like a deer in headlights. She clutched her pocket, hesitated, and finally said, "Alright, I'll spill. I'm from around here, but my mom's not. She got tricked into coming here. I've been here since I was a kid. My mom used to grow poppies for Emilio, but she quit when she got sick. We live in this village."

"And who's Emilio?" Quinn asked.

Casey explained, "He used to run the show here, but someone else took over a few years back. Leadership changes all the time here; we're used to it."

Casey made it sound like no big deal, but Quinn caught on that her mom had been duped into coming here.

Before growing poppies, she must've been through a lot.

"What about your dad?" Quinn asked.

"I don't have a dad. Mom said he died ages ago," Casey answered.

After waiting a while and not seeing Alexander and the others,

a sickroom in the back, and the doc was in there patching

doc talk, Casey ran in to

needed an IV. The injury was bad, and his skills were limited; he could only check for external injuries, not internal ones. Alexander's rib was definitely busted, but it was

at the

to stay put for the IV. After cleaning up and changing into fresh clothes, Alexander looked like his usual dignified self, no sign of the mess he was in

but the soundproofing sucked, and Quinn

about Walter

a cigarette and said thoughtfully,

not surprising?" Sean

Alexander

it was his doing?"

his

It seemed like he did nothing, but who knew what he was up to behind the

like dogs, to remember scents