"I'll talk to him."

He was pretty sure his son wouldn't hold a grudge over this.

"Alright."

Everett stepped into Langston's room, just as Jeffrey emerged from another.

Dorothy handed him a bag, suggesting he pack his dirty clothes in it.

"I'll just toss them out later, no biggie!"

"Better toss 'em. If Karen sees, she'll overthink things! Give her a ring. Kenneth just told me Karen's at the hospital for a check-up."

At the mention of the hospital, Jeffrey's face lost all color.

The lot of them had developed a phobia of hospitals; those words felt like a curse!

"What's wrong with her?!"

Kenneth said Karen felt a bit off, so he took her for a check-up. The doc said it's nothing major, probably just stress. You should go see her, ask her about it in

Everett was holding up, but hearing about Karen in the

his queen bee; if something happened to her, it

Jeffrey off, Dorothy also went to check on the

Langston's computer felt... oddly like seeing

"Did you find it?"

computer was a gift from him, cracking the passwords he'd

like Lane hinted, that there's an

it down, indeed catching the phrase

didn't say it outright." Everett looked up at her. "Has Lane contacted you

did! But that call

not expecting it to be Lane, so she hadn't thought to prepare. "What did

ал

can't quite remember, that was right when you said Quincy had disappeared..." Dorothy strained to recatt. "He said he wanted me, that he hated you, and

immediately grasped her hand, "And then

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