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Sage goes pale.

“Me?”

“Hundreds of them.”

Cold moves through me.

Sean continues.

“School. Mae's house. The foster home.”

My heart stops.

“He was watching her?”

“For years.”

Sage's fingers tighten around mine.

Then Sean says the words that turn my fear into something much worse.

“Some of the photographs were taken before Mae died.”

I stare at him.

Daniel told me he couldn't find my daughter.

He told me there was no trail.

He told me to be patient.

All those years⁠—

He knew exactly where she was.

And suddenly Navarro isn't the only man I want to find.

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SEAN

“Who is Daniel Price?” Sage asks.

Hayley goes completely still.

Sage is sitting between us in the back seat, still holding Hayley’s hand.

Arthur waits behind the wheel.

Taylor and Will have already climbed out of the SUV ahead of us.

Nobody moves.

Hayley stares at me.

“My investigator.”

The words are quiet.