Chapter 120: Reunited.

Eric White's phone rang with the distinctive tone reserved only for one particular caller - his father, Jonathan. He exhaled slowly, steeling himself for whatever new crisis or demand was about to be leveled. With all that had transpired already over this day, he knew better than to hope this was a social call. "This is Eric," he answered evenly, preceding any pleasantries. "I trust your day has been just as eventful as mine," Jonathan's cultured voice crackled over the line, a hint of dry amusement tingeing his words. "Though I imagine with fewer heads of state and federal pawns begging for assurances about exactly whose chessboard this latest round of fireworks is playing out on." Eric clenched his jaw at the oblique reference to his father's shadowy machinations clearly being a factor in the events currently upending his life. "You'd be correct," he bit out. Olivia was temporarily relocated after an...incident." He hesitated momentarily before adding, "I'm sure you're alrea