Chapter 205

Elodie caught her cousin’s look. ‘Spit it out, Harper. Don’t beat around the bush.’ Harper took a deep breath. ‘Dashiell called me every day, asking about the search and rescue. He… he seemed really worried about you, El.’ Elodie, caught off guard by the revelation, could only manage a flat, ‘Oh.’ ‘Yeah. As a matter of fact, he called me just over an hour ago, before I got your call.’ ‘He found out about the plane crash?’ ‘Well, everyone who isn’t living under a rock has heard about it,’ Harper said. ‘He wanted to fly here himself. But I guess later he must have changed his mind. Still, he’s paying for a lot of people to join the search. I think those are mercenaries, by the way. Looked pretty hardcore.’ Elodie furrowed her brow. ‘Okay, got it.’ Harper eyed her cousin with concern. ‘Do you, uh, do you want me to give him a call, tell him you’re okay?’ Elodie hesitated, the familiar tug-of-war raging inside her. Calling Dashiell herself was out of the question. A clean break, that’s wha