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Claire didn’t bother plunging into a whole explanation of her gift She merely waited for Shannon’s response

“Billy Carver and Jessica Majors,” Shannon supplied “They’re both aweso Three Billy can’t qualify for another year; he’s only fifteen And Jessica is working on perfecting her ti”

Casey was taking all this in “Are you friendly enough with the suspicion?”

“Sure” Shannon turned her palms up in puzzlement “Why? What do you want me to ask them?”

“How they’re doing at practice since Jim took off It’s very important that you don’t use words like disappeared or vanished Keep it casual I just want to figure out how the drug withdrawal is affecting them”

“It’s affected me a lot” Shannon looked sad “And not only ery I had to fixa walk I’m so tired Plus, I have all these daily medications I have to take now”

Claire placed her hand on Shannon’s arain “Tell that to the you, and how much you miss the they take per day”

“I was taking four—two in the ain “Why do you want to know that?”

Claire was gentle but honest “Because I think Ji you more than the others Probably because you were closest to bringing hi your weakened rotator cuff, your accident, and your resulting cardiomyopathy”

“Oh ot hurt when no one else did?”

“I believe so, yes”

“Shannon,” Ryan interrupted “Do you have Jiht answer This would be a crucial, first solid lead on Robbins The background checks that both he and Miles had run had couy read like a Boy Scout And his e and ordinary—co information

To Ryan’s relief, Shannon nodded “It’s programmed into my cell phone”

Ryan grabbed a pad “Give it to ent “Given the sophistication of this organization,to turn out to be a burner phone, which would keep his calls anonymous—except from me”

Turning to face Casey, Ryan said, “The phone coot to find out Robbins’ service provider and find a way into their system That could take a while” Ryan purposely avoided the word hack No need for TMI, not with a teenager “The provider won’t have a name—I’m sure Robbins paid by cash—but they will have records for that phone nuot to act fast They tend to delete records pretty quickly I ht have days, maybe a week if I’m lucky And I want to knoho Robbins called and who called hi this case”