We mustn’t let him die.”“No,” said Mia definitely, “it’s clever but it’s too risky. We’d just lose you too. We can take Mo to a doctor...”Grace swerved round another car. They were doing a hundred now. “We HAVE to,” she said loudly. “They’ve got my mum somewhere and it’s the only way to find out where. Unless we grab Honeyeva and torture her, which we wouldn’t actually do, and they’d know anyway, that she’d gone missing and then move mum and the others somewhere else.” Her eyes had gone a bit. “I just wanted Julien to understand that it was disrespectful to flirt with you while I was standing right there. I told him as much and made it clear I expected him to stop.”“You didn’t need to send me away for that,” she said crossly.Mac pondered that thought for a moment. “You’re right. I just wasn’t sure if I could keep my cool and didn’t want to embarrass myself in front of you.”His reasoning threw Grace for a loop.“As it turns out, I surprised myself at how calm I remained. But I made my. Why Steve was coming home so suddenly. Why he had been even more disconnected from her over the last year. She glanced at the kitchen clock, and realized he would be home in mere minutes. She’d have to move fast to remove the most obvious traces of her ‘kidnapping.’ As she slipped Jack’s note into the pocket of the robe he gave her, her mind was made up. Steve need never know. Actually, it was really just none of his business. Epilogue Callie kissed her manuscript before handing it to her. I gave it a rest on Wednesday, but Thursday I came by again. Same basic routine. At my suggestion, we went back to my apartment and used the pool. Maureen said she enjoyed swimming and didn't get too many opportunities to use a pool.Ours would be open for the rest of September, anyway.After our swim, we dressed in my apartment, but nothing funny happened. I took her back home well before time for me to report to the park for that night's final game with Kansas City.Saturday afternoon, after.