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Running out for the missing condiments had given Jason a chance to send a quick text to his mother.
Back in Tahoe. Searching. Will keep you posted.
After that, he put his phone in airplane mode. He guessed Carolyn would try to text him back immediately, and he didn’t dare get interrupted while he was with Laurel. Better to let his mother think he was already out in the mountains somewhere, looking for their elusive healer.
It felt good to know that more than a hundred miles separated them, and that Carolyn really couldn’t come after him here. His mother was a take-charge sort of person, but even she knew better than to intrude on another clan’s territory without a specific invitation. And after the way the Ludlows had joined forces with Joaquin Escobar several years earlier, there w
