Owned By The Lost Boys by AJ Merlin

Author:AJ Merlin [Merlin, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

With Sera out of the bookstore on Wednesday, leaving me to my own devices during a day that’s known for being dead, I take the opportunity to do whatever I personally think needs doing.

By noon, however, when it’s obvious this is going to be the least busy day we’ve had in about three months, I decided that if I don’t do something useful, then I’m going to fall asleep.

And to me, useful is definitely sticking my nose where it absolutely doesn’t belong, like all up in the Lost Boys’ business.

While there’s no news of a dead man showing up anywhere, and I don’t expect there to be, I instead google every single one of the Lost Boys to the best of my ability before deciding that leads me nowhere.

Well, except when I type in Cyril Chancellor and Ashe together in the search bar. They’re the only ones that come up side by side, with Cyril standing in front of an office door in a suit that matches Ashe’s outfit and an arm slung over his Lost Boy.

Didn’t Isaac tell me Ashe and Cyril had known each other the longest? Now I can barely remember since that conversation seems so far removed from now, but I swear he told me that. So maybe Ashe isn’t a product of abuse or a bad situation like the others are. Which, admittedly, seems a little weird when I know the other three came from bad situations.

Though I have to wonder how bad and just what kind of situations they actually came from for Cyril to find and spirit them away.

Would they tell me? Would Isaac tell me the details if I asked or was persistent about it? I can’t read him well enough anymore to know if he would or if I’d just be pissing him off by asking.

I’m totally not going to ask.

…Maybe.

As I scroll through the images on my phone screen, I find multiple pictures of Cyril and his uncle and a few more of Cyril and Ashe. Though none of the other Lost Boys are in any of them, and I can’t find any mention of them. Not even when I type in Cyril Chancellor and Lost Boys together. As if their gang name is going to pop right up.

When I cross a picture that has a familiar face in it, however, I do a double-take.

The man from the cabin is in one image, standing nearby and looking sullen, while Cyril, his uncle, and another man who looks like he might be faking his enjoyment of being…wherever they are.

I click on the image and find that it’s attached to an article to scan the story about some local strip mall getting updated and rededicated to the community. Not that I really care about any of that. But I do care when the article names the other suit-wearing man in the picture.

Declan Roger.

I’ve never heard his name before, and when I search for his name on the internet, I find a few

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