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but rounded and soft in all the right places.
    “Are you going to stand there all day, waiting for her to call for you?” Banan asked sardonically.
    Guy jerked his head around to find all three staring at him. He wasn’t sure he liked the way Con’s gaze narrowed on him, or how Rhys smiled as if he knew exactly what Guy was thinking.
    So, he focused on Banan. “Why be such a bastard?”
    “Someone has to be. And it’s my turn this month.”
    Guy rolled his eyes and shouldered his way through them.

    For long minutes, Elena simply stared at the closed door. There had been something decidedly ominous about Constantine’s parting words.
    The only thing that kept her from trying to escape out the third-floor window was Guy’s look before he left. She couldn’t be sure, but she thought he might have been trying to tell her to be strong without saying the words.
    In any case, she was too tired to think past getting out of her grimy clothes. Except when she did finally make it into the adjoining bathroom and sat on the toilet to unlace her boots, she couldn’t hold back the yelp of pain.
    With the boot off and the laces no longer keeping everything tight, her ankle swelled before her eyes. She was glad she was sitting because the room began to spin. It was only by holding on to the sink that she managed to get both her shirts off. Her pants were another matter entirely.
    But she wanted out of the soiled clothes.
    With her foot and knee hurting ten times more than before, she slowly made her way back into the bedroom, since a shower was now out of the question. If she couldn’t stand on her own, then trying to take a shower would be foolish.
    She did manage to open a drawer and find a pair of sweatpants. They were so huge, she had to roll down the waist several times as well as roll up the legs so she didn’t walk on them.
    The long-sleeve flannel button-down was most likely saved for cooler weather, but it looked too comfortable to pass up. Only once she was dressed did she hobble painfully back to the bed.
    Where she readily climbed under the covers.
    Elena had no idea how long she was left alone before she opened her eyes to find Guy at the foot of the bed, watching her. With Con beside him, and Rhys and Banan on either side of the bed.
    “Why do I feel like I need to call a lawyer?” she asked, and turned her head to hide her yawn.
    Con smiled, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes. “There’s no need for a lawyer, Miss Griffin.”
    “Really? By the way you’re looking at me, I’d say otherwise. You aren’t happy we were in the mountain.”
    “Nay.” Con said it with finality, and a hardness that brought her fully awake.
    Elena sat up, wincing when the movement caused her left leg to move. “And Sloan? Have you called the authorities to retrieve her body?”
    “The authorities have been called,” Banan said. “I showed them where Sloan fell.”
    Elena frowned. “How long did I sleep?”
    “Four hours,” Guy answered.
    She rubbed her hands over her face as her mind struggled to process everything. “Why didn’t the police talk to me? Didn’t they want to hear my story?”
    “They believed us,” was all Constantine said.
    Elena shook her head. “No. For all I know, you could have told them I pushed her.”
    “Maybe you did.”
    She blinked, her anger spiking in an instant. “How dare you thi—”
    “How dare I?” Con spoke over her. “You trespassed on private property. I want to know what you were doing in the caves.”
    “Caving,” she said, her exasperation growing. “It was Sloan’s idea to come here. She kept saying she’d heard it was a great spot to cave.”
    Rhys’s usual friendly face grew livid as he leaned close. “Who told her that? Who has been here?”
    “What did they see?” Banan demanded.
    Elena pushed at Rhys’s chest. He hadn’t been expecting it, so she was able to shove him back far enough that she threw off the covers and jumped out of the bed.
    Unfortunately,