I love you, Rachel Stevenson. I love you lying against me, too. We can be this way though I will reset my alarm for earlier. We shouldn’t be caught ...f possible.”I could see her face in the dm light. She grinned. “It’s one thing for your mother to think I’m in here. It’s another for her to know.” I nodded. I reset my alarm clock for four and settled back down. Rachel curled against me delightfully.We slept. When the alarm went off, I realized that we had turned in the night as we slept. We were. Oh god, oh god! Should she answer it? What could he want? Before she even realised what she was doing, she found herself weakly saying, "Hello?" Inwardly she was cursing her actions, but she could not stop herself."It's me," he said, in what sounded like a relatively upbeat voice. "I was thinking, perhaps I was a little harsh yesterday, telling you to go like that. I mean, it was kind of your own fault, I did tell you not to contact me again, but, you did do as you were told in the end, so…". “Yeah, as if the niece of the most hunted person in the world won’t raise questions. Without you there to protect her, someone’s likely to kidnap her to draw you out. As upset as she is here, she loves you and wants to help. Your treatments make a world of difference too.”Eric scanned the article, folding it and shoving it in his pocket. “I’ll study it later, but I doubt there’s much I need to know. I’m not ready to show my face yet. Have CC send a messenger and we’ll figure out everyone’s next. Mick and Mike were busy cross-checking the names, dates, suspectedactions by Marlene, Nero, as well as Ted. The more Linda talked the lessshe actually knew about Marlene's life outside the home, which was a hugered flag for them as they could show direct links to criminal rings inmultiple areas that went beyond simple money laundering and case fixingthat they already knew of.Ricardo and Juan discussed the kids. Linda asked about the money she gavethem to which she learned that their trusts were.