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He frowned but brought up his phone and sent Gage a message instead.

When Gage phoned a few minutes later, Morrison put it on Speakerphone.

“The reason I sent you that message is because Sadie was wondering if Terkel could double-check that question I had for her, but I thought you might know, so I’m checking with you first.”

Gage sighed. “I can ask him, but I don’t know if it’s a thing either. It’s energy at a distance, and I know that, in some circumstances, Terk has a way to check it out. I will relay your request.”

“If it’s my brother’s energy, then should I just sadly accept that Don has gotten involved in something that’s way over his head, and it is just a fact of life?” she cried out.

Gage hesitated and then replied, “Sadly that’s not a bad analysis.”

Morrison heard her tears showing up again, then spoke to Gage on the phone. “I just read the update with the history on Don.”

“I did too. We don’t have a last known address, but, once we got the name and details, we found that he did own a vehicle, and it was registered to a specific address, but we don’t have him at that address any longer.

It was about two years ago, and, since then, we have no record of his being at that address,” Gage shared thoughtfully. “So, we’re all still looking for him.”

“Keep looking,” Morrison stated. “Don’s got to be somewhere.”

“He’s in hiding after these crimes, and, if he’s been doing energy work for the heist crew, then maybe his abilities are more developed than Sadie’s, and he…” Gage let his voice trail off.

“Yes, we were thinking of that too. I keep coming back to the idea that somebody is hiding the energy and managing to scramble the electronics, so they aren’t showing up clearly on the camera feeds.

Maybe even jamming the alarm signals, if that’s something Don can do too. ” He turned to look at Sadie.

Sadie shrugged. “I have no idea what he can or can’t do, any more than I know what I can do myself.”

“Got it. Gage, did you hear that?” Morrison asked.

“Yeah, I did. I also just got a confirmation from Terkel that the energy signature is a match for Don.”

Hearing the wordless cry beside him, Morrison replied, “Okay, thanks for that. If you get any other updates, check back in. I’m at her place.”

“You still feel she’s not safe in that regard?” Gage asked curiously.

“It just feels wrong,” he clarified. “I can’t tell you how much or why, but something feels wrong, and I just know something’s going on here.… I get that it’s hardly the priority in this case, yet it seems as if it should be, you know?”

“Absolutely it is,” Gage agreed. “I’m not telling you not to stick by her. I guess what I wanted to say is, watch your back.” With that word of warning, he ended the call.

Morrison smiled down at the phone, enjoying a certain sense of freedom in working with people who understood energy. People who didn’t double-cross you or question your choices. He could easily see doing this work with somebody like Gage again in the future.

“What are you smiling about now?” Sadie asked from across the table.

He looked up at her and realized that he had revealed his feelings.

“It’s just that I’ve never worked with anybody else who has done energy work before, and it’s quite freeing in a way.

Nobody questions my feelings, my thoughts, or my out-of-the-blue decisions, and there’s this…

sense of acceptance that I’ve never had before. ”

“I can see that.” She nodded. “I just keep thinking that I should be doing something more, especially if my brother is doing all this with his energy skills.”

“And maybe you can. I mean, you can see his energy. And you saw your adoptive mother’s soul leave her body.”

“Yet I don’t know that it was really her soul,” she clarified. “I just saw what I would call energy.”

“Not sure what anyone else would call it,” he noted, with a gentle smile in her direction. He rubbed his stomach. “I will need food.” She stared at him, not quite getting it until he asked, “I’ll be your house guest, so are we ordering in, or do you have groceries?”

She blinked as if she suddenly understood where he was going with this and looked around. “Are you sure you need to stay here?”

“Yes, I’m sure,” he stated. “I’m not willing to give on that point at all. I get that it wasn’t part of the deal you were expecting, but the more I get involved in this,… the more I realize it’s very necessary.”

She shuddered, then nodded. “Fine, I have a house guest apparently.”

“You do,” he agreed, with a bright smile. “And thanks for not arguing about it.”

She gave him a wry look. “Would it do any good?”

“No, it sure wouldn’t.” He chuckled. “However, it does make my life easier. Now, I do happen to cook,” he shared, “but for that to work, you must have food here.”

“Yeah, that’s a bit of a problem,” she muttered. “I’ve been so distracted in the last few months since all of this with my twin brother came up.”

“Now’s a good time to start eating regularly,” he noted, “because one of the things about energy work is that you need to feed it. Plus, I enjoy being fed.” He got up and walked to the kitchen, which was literally right beside him, and went to open the fridge, then looked at her. “May I?”

She snorted. “Odd that you should ask now.”

“Hey, I did ask if you were okay with my staying, but considering that it’ll save your life—”

At that moment, he realized the way he’d phrased it was one of the reasons he didn’t do well in office settings or in teams. It was true as far as he was concerned, but he tended to just let the words come as they may, without giving people a chance to be prepared for it.

Like Sadie. She just stared at him in shock, and he nodded because he had no choice.

The cat was already out of bag. “Yes, I’m serious. ”

She swallowed hard, nodded several times, then got up and opened up the fridge. “You’re right. We need to eat.”

And, with that, the conversation completely detoured into food.

They both had things on their minds.