CHAPTER 25CHARLIE
October 1, 2090
“Iknow he’s the one who took it, Griff. I saw him leave your room an hour ago.” Shane, one of Griff’s top confidants, stood just inside my Defiance room pointing an accusing finger. He had been working with Griff throughout the fall on missions to track down pendants in Texas, but as far as I knew, they had come up empty-handed. He had also been out to replace me as Griff’s righthand man.
I sat on my bed, still lost in the story I had been writing. When voices approached my door, I shoved the notebook under my pillow. The hero in the story had been on an undercover mission that turned bad, and I had a feeling that as much as I didn’t want it to, my real life was about to imitate the story in my head. I had taken one of Griff’s pendants. It was for his o
