A/N: This is really like a half chapter that is mostly just to update you on what happens between some of the chapters. It isn't much, but the next chapter should be up sometime tomorrow.
The weeks passed quickly and with relative normalcy other than the new oddness of Reid and Jamie being together in a way that they never had been before. They tried to be at least semi-respectful of Tyler's feelings towards their relationship by keeping the PDA's to a minimum when he was around, but with Tyler being Jamie's brother and Reid's best friend and the three of them living together, it wasn't always possible. When Reid and Jamie had finally admitted to one another that they were in love with each other, the flood gates opened and they were suddenly inseparable and sickeningly cute—at least, when they thought no one else was watching. They did still have reputations to protect. They couldn't be seen as cute and cuddly.
Tyler was okay with Jamie and Reid's relationship. It was weird to be at school and turn a corner only to see his sister and best friend sneaking a kiss between classes or to catch them holding hands under the table in the library when Jamie actually convinced Reid to study with her. But Tyler knew Reid and Jamie well enough to know that they really were in love. They needed each other.
Chase had stayed hidden since the night he had attacked Jamie in the woods behind the school and Caleb in the alley behind Nicky's. The Sons of Ipswich didn't mind not having to fight Chase until they had some sort of plan, but the anticipation, knowing Chase could attack at any moment and catch one of them off-guard—they almost couldn't stand it anymore.