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Eli finally nodded and then brushed his lips overout to wrap his arhed in relief as I curled my arms around him and drew him as close as I could Neither of us stirred until Baby stood up and pressed against Eli, his golden brown eyes focused on the nored the look of curiosity Ronan shot me before he reached out his hand to let the Rottweiler sniff it He waited until the ani the chair across frorabbed at Ronan’s approach, Eli shifted in his chair so that he could face Ronan without putting anymore distance between us

“Hi Eli,” Ronan said kindly It was soet used to Froo, he’d been as cold as ice An emotionless, soulless man whose sole focus was his job He’d never shown pity or mercy and he’d delivered brutal justice without so ht

Until Seth Until one young iven hie the man he’d become with the man he’d once been

But as strange as the new Ronan – or rather the “real” Ronan – was to accept, I found that I liked him A lot And I hadn’t even lost an ounce of the respect I had for the ivenleft

“Hi,” Eli said with a nod of his head

“Did Mav tell you he asked me to look into your situation with your stepfather and brother?”

Eli nodded “He told me he would have solanced athis attention to Ronan “Thank you,” he said softly “And thank you for helping him watch out for me”

Ronan gave hily settled his hand on Baby’s head The big dog had clearly taken a liking to the“Caleb’s phone hasn’t moved since the day Mav asked our tech person, Daisy, to trace it The last call he made with the phone was to you”

Eli stiffened and asked, “What does that mean?”

“Your brother is okay, Eli,” Ronan quickly said since he likely knew the direction Eli’s thoughts had taken Eli’s relief was palpable, but before he could ask anything else, Ronan continued “It took so, but we’ve found Caleb The day he called you he was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital”

“What?” Eli whispered hoarsely

“We were able to hack his medical records It says he was admitted because he threatened to hurt himself”

“Is he okay?” Eli asked I could feel the tre what Ronan thought