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“Maybe he knows where Navarro is.”

“Maybe.”

“Or maybe he works for him.”

Hayley flinches.

Sage sees it.

“You trusted him.”

Hayley doesn't try to deny it.

“Yes.”

“For how long?”

“Sage—”

“No.” Hayley looks at me. “She can ask.”

Then she turns toward our daughter.

“I hired Daniel to help me find you.”

Sage stares at her.

“When?”

Hayley hesitates.

“A long time ago.”

“How long?”

Pain moves across Hayley's face.

“We'll talk about all of it. I promise.”

Sage looks down.

I understand what Hayley is doing.

This isn't something that should be explained in the back of an SUV after a kidnapping and a gunfight.

But Sage has spent too much of her life being kept in the dark.

I won't let that happen again.

I lean toward her.

“We aren't hiding anything from you.”

She looks at me.

“We just don't have all the answers yet.”

“Okay.”