"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?!"

The doc said it's nothing major, probably just stress. You should go see her, ask her about

was holding up, but hearing about Karen in the hospital, he rushed off without even waiting for Everett

something happened to her, it would be a

Dorothy also went to check

Langston's computer felt... oddly like seeing an

"Did you find it?"

gift from him, cracking the

Lane

catching the phrase Dorothy mentioned. But... Lane hadn't explicitly mentioned

say it outright." Everett looked up at her. "Has Lane contacted you

But that

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

ал

when you said Quincy had disappeared..." Dorothy strained

immediately grasped her hand, "And then

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