deformed bone

"Imogene Paine?"

Calvin switched the microphone to the other side, and his expression suddenly became serious.

"The man from the shelter? That 'Mr. Paine', you should have been on that damned tree at that time, and you should have heard what he said, he was the one who said he wanted to get rid of Madeleine..."

"He is one of the Adventist archbishops." Isaac interrupted Calvin, "Where are you now?"

Calvin almost told Isaac that he was at Virgil's house.

Fortunately, he reacted before he could speak. While looking at Moses who was staring at his phone curiously, he said nonchalantly: "Motel. Thank you for your 'good deed' of throwing me out of the car in the middle of the night."

Some worried that Moses' barking would attract Isaac's attention, Calvin stretched out his finger while speaking, and pressed it lightly on Moses' thin lips.

[Be quiet. 】

He spoke silently to Moses with the shape of his mouth.

Moses blinked, and he stared motionlessly at Calvin who was close at hand. Perhaps because of the refraction of the light, his eyes were as silent and deep as a deep pool.

Calvin suddenly felt that the finger touching Moses' lips was a little hot.

"...you have no idea how much trouble last night caused you."

On the phone, after a very short pause, Ai Zac said in a gloomy voice.Even without seeing Isaac's current appearance, Calvin could clearly feel the strong anger suppressed by the other party.

"Someone is checking your news this morning." Isaac said.

The moment Calvin heard this, his jaw tightened.

"You've dealt with it, haven't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have called me. "

He said softly, still sounding calm, but only he himself knew how weak he was at this moment.

"That's right, I've managed it—even if that guy is still wondering why I ran to the shelter in the middle of the night, he's also very surprised who the kind-hearted person named 'Helen' was before me." Izak When he spoke, there was not even any ups and downs in his tone, "Do you know how strong the Adventist faction is now? Imogen Paine is one of the elders of the Adventist faction. He is the one with the most power among the four archbishops. The craziest one. Almost all the radicals in the Adventist faction belong to his faction. This guy was on a missionary tour in the middle of the bird's shit the day before, and today he suddenly came to Los Angeles-guess, why he came Come? To go to the trouble of asking an ordinary bartender named Calvin Holden?"

Isaac said coldly: "Someone must have revealed your news, and you and I both know who it would be."

Calvin was silent for a moment.

"Madeleine is not a problem. Although she hates me, you can tell from her crazy words that she doesn't know anything, but..." Calvin stopped talking, and he grabbed the side of the phone The knuckles are a little whitish.

"...How much does Isa know about you? Damn, you better not tell me you're giving me too much shit."

Undoubtedly, Isaac was out of breath.

Calvin thought as he listened to Mr. Inspector's growl in a low voice.

An emotion called "guilt" slowly spread from the bottom of Calvin's heart.

Calvin knew Isaac's worries at this moment, and his actions last night could only be described as stupid... He was bewitched by the phantom of the past, and he tried in vain to redeem something.

The result was only exposing himself and Isaac to danger.

"She's pretty close to me, but I don't think she knows any more than her mother. Most of the time she's in the staff lounge and I'm at the bar." Calvin tried to recall the details of getting along with Isa.

He has always paid great attention to his privacy, and he hides the details that may make him fall into the hunt.

"Better like you said," Isaac said stiffly. "Look, we need to meet somewhere. I have a hunch things aren't going well this time."

"Redbeard's basement, twelve o'clock in the morning."

"...I'll be there."

After the brothers' communication, which didn't require much communication, Isaac hung up the phone cleanly.

Calvin stared at the phone with a pitch-black screen in his hand, his face pale.

"Ow?"

He heard a slightly dry whimper, and when he came to his senses, Moses was already tightly attached to his body.

Perhaps sensing his nervousness, Moses also seemed tense.The dog inhabiting the human body sticks out its tongue and licks Calvin's sweaty neck, and makes a whimpering, sweet nasal sound that seems to be trying to appease Calvin.