Steve? Working for the dragons? I didn’t want to believe it. I wanted to tell Kaylee where to stick her idea and walk away fuming. I wanted to be up in arms defending my closest friend, the man I had literally gone to war with, who had cared for me when I was Power sick after breaking out of jail, who had stood by me when I was on the run from the suck-heads, who I had once trusted with everything. I couldn’t and that killed me.
The other problem with intelligent women is that they’re often right when you don’t want them to be. Not only was what Kaylee had alleged possible, it fit. We still didn’t know how the dragons had found us at deer camp. I couldn’t prove that Steve told them where we were, but I couldn’t prove that he didn’t. I do know that I had sent him away from deer camp before the dragons arrived. He would have had at least a day before he could have met up with anyone once they arrived here. He had ample time to talk to whoever he needed to. It was all circumstantial and the helicopter threw a curveball into all of it, but the possibility definitely existed and it was one I hadn’t considered.