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Chapter 444 - 41

Instead of wandering around Arbor Isle aimlessly while you discuss the best course of action, you have your friends follow you to a nearby park where you're likely to be undisturbed. There's not much here except for some picnic tables and an old play structure that seagulls have pooped all over. It doesn't look like anybody's bothered to clean it in months.

"What are we going to do about Caleb?"

You turn your attention back to the group and realize Addy has just asked you a question. Your friends look at you in that "are you okay?" way that makes you realize you've been spacing out for a while now. Probably the entire time you've been sitting in the park.

"What do you mean?" you ask Addy.

They rest their elbows against the picnic table and lean in towards you. The setting sun behind them builds a certain atmosphere of importance around the conversation. "I mean that Ennis is using Caleb as her agent of evil. Without him playing along, she wouldn't be able to do any of this," they say.

"Ashley said she'd ask him to stop," Diego says.

"Even if I trusted your not-girlfriend, that still doesn't mean I'd trust Caleb," Addy says. "I doubt he'd just agree to leave Petzeiros alone after all he's already done. Maybe Ennis has something on him and that's why he's doing her bidding, I don't know."

"It's also not like we have enough to go to his mom with, really," you say. "She doesn't trust me, and even if we did get her to believe us, that might just encourage Caleb to retaliate."

"So we're not going to do anything," Anuja says, her voice not so much disappointed as it is exhausted.