Aftg react

Part74

Book4 chapter16

There was no way he would expose himself like this to her. Just thinking of putting it into words made him dizzy. He moved to throw his phone out of reach when it hummed in his hand, and in his
surprise he almost dropped it.
The area code was familiar, but the number was not.

"Wow the déjà vu that I got right now" said Alison, watching Jean panic about talking to Betsy and him getting a message from a familiar area code but not knowing the number. But seeing the number, they realised who it was but then came the question why was Neil texting Jean?
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Jean only had a dozen-
odd contacts saved in his phone, and half shared the same South Carolina
prefix. Jean's first angry thought was Rhemann had called Dobson, not
trusting Jean to follow through on his promise to get help, but Jean had her
information saved and this message came up with no name attached. Jean
drummed his fingernails on the keys for a few agitated seconds before
opening the text.
The message was in French: "Where are you?"
Not Kevin's number, which left only one suspect. Jean still sent back a
"Who" to be sure.
"Neil," was the quick response, and then, "I am in Los Angeles. We have to
talk."

"Huh? WHAT? Why is he there?" Shouted Nicky, others winced and Aaron did everyone a favour and hit him on the back of his head "can't you be more quiet?" he said annoyed, Nicky rolled his eyes "but I am right, everyone here wants to know why he is there" , Nicky was right, why? Did he find out what happened to Jean? But how it would have been impossible Neil would already have been on the plane when it happened so the question still remained, Andrew narrowed his eyes, was he with Neil?
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Jean looked at the clock on his phone, and dread was a heavy weight
settling in Jean's bones. He knew the Foxes had already started summer
practices, and he knew how long the flight here from South Carolina was. If
Neil had skipped out on practice to make this trip, he was not coming with
good news.

"Yea no way Neil would willingly leave practice" said Alison and others laughed.

(One more chapter till tsc finishes 😭😢🫶)