CHAPTER TEN
foreshocks
Rupert has already come clean with Wes about Jacinta Ramirez. This I know. What I don’t know is how much else he has withheld. The urge to tell them both about my meeting with Iona and Nurse Gus threatens to overwhelm my good sense, but instead I shut up and watch Rupert tap-dance his way around this latest surprise.
However, I can give them one fact that I do know—one fact that will not betray my misguided alliance with the carrot queen. “It’s proof they have Finan,” I say, interrupting Rupert.
Both men stop and give me their full attention.
“When I left earlier, I went up to Mt. Magnus.” Not wholly untrue. “The morning he disappeared, Finan and I had figured out that my mother or Jacinta might have hidden the red beryl somewhere on the mountain, maybe under th
