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“I know.”

My voice cracks.

“He let me keep paying him.”

Sean stands next to me.

He doesn’t touch me.

He puts himself close enough that I know he is there.

“What else did you find?” he asks Vega.

“Price didn’t only make money from Hayley. Greg paid him for information on vulnerable girls.”

“Did he sell Sage’s information to Greg?”

A pause follows.

“Yes.”

The word crushes something inside me.

My investigator found my daughter.

Then he sold her.

Maybe he didn’t drive her to the warehouse.

Maybe he didn’t accept Navarro’s five thousand dollars.

But he put her name in Greg’s hands.

“What did he give him?” Sean asks.

“Her age. Her school photograph. Mae’s death record. The address of the foster home. Notes indicating Sage had no known living family.”

I close my eyes.

“No.”

“Hayley,” Sean says quietly.

“I was looking for her.”

“I know.”

“She had family.”

“I know.”

“Daniel knew I was looking.”

Sean’s voice hardens.

“He lied to Greg.”

“He told him she had no one.”