Chapter Seventeen: Family Secrets
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POV: *Reign*
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I sent Jude a couple of texts when I closed my front door behind me. Today had been so bizarre. I sat through that entire meeting, waiting for Beau to go off the rails. He didn't.
Beau sat quietly as my boss cautioned me on my risky research topics. Mr. Barnhouse scolded me on my reach from suspicious death to murder with links to the mob. He claimed behavior like that had given the press a bad name.
It wasn't like I had wanted the deaths to be related to something so terrifying. The small painted bird was the common denominator. All I had done was point it out.
When the meeting ended and we headed out of the room, Beau made his move. He wrapped his arms around me like he had been on a business trip. Like he had missed me, an
