Colin immediately bent forward, dropping his hands to his thighs to gather a deep breath at the news that probably had him feeling physically ill. I held his arm and rubbed his back with my other hand.

“Daniel’s twenty-three. She’s only sixteen,” he hissed. “But I—I should’ve known. The way he looked at us when Lennon introduced me as her boyfriend last month . . .”

“Wild enough, if Daniel hadn’t attacked Constantine’s intern last week . . .” Izzy let her words trail off, turning her comments in a new direction when she resumed talking. “I think we were wrong about Brian Cormac. No one is trying to revive The Alliance.” She turned to look at her parents and brother as well. “Jamie and his family were just trying to make money here, away from the eyes of The League. They’d never have known Sebastian has the cyber wallet in a vault at The Sapphire Hotel.”

I helped Colin stand tall again as I asked, “Then who would know?”

“What if,” Izzy began, “Daniel was obsessed with Lennon, so he wanted Colin out of her life, and somehow, Daniel knew about The Sapphire Hotel and that cyber wallet?”

Salvatore shook his head. “How would a kid like him know that?”

“Shit.” Hudson cursed again. “Last week when we questioned Daniel, he was afraid of anyone finding out about his attempted mugging and also said, ‘you have no idea who you’re messing with.’ At the time, we assumed he’d been talking about his boss, and he was worried he might blow the deal at the rave. But now that we know all this . . .”

Hudson left us to connect the dots.

“If it’s not Cormac and The Alliance looking to restart things, then who is?” Angela asked him, drawing Alessandro’s eyes instead of Hudson’s.

Her son unfolded his arms, grimacing. “A wolf in sheep’s clothing who couldn’t let any of this connect to him. Someone with enough power and pull to have prison records changed, sending us down the wrong track, thinking this was Alliance-related because of Cormac.”

“Who?” Colin’s question punctured the air, eyes moving back and forth between Hudson and Alessandro for answers.

“Someone in Sebastian’s inner circle who’d know what was on that device and where it’s hidden but couldn’t get their hands on it themselves,” Alessandro said. “Someone who knows Easton and Carter and what they’re capable of, so they had to keep their hands free of this and use unknowing puppets to get the job done. A member of⁠—”

“The League.” At the sound of Constantine’s voice finishing his brother’s suspicion, I abruptly turned to see him standing at the living room entrance, a pained expression crossing his face.

Colin pulled free of my hold and rushed to him, wrapping his arms around his father, smashing his cheek against his dad’s hard body.