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“No.”

“What about her apartment?”

Taylor looks at Sean.

That tells me the answer before he says it.

“The building burned last winter.”

My chest tightens.

“Was Sally hurt?”

“I don’t know.”

“Can we find out.”

“I’m trying.”

He looks at the notebook again.

“Frank’s address is empty. The current owner bought the house five months ago.”

“Where did he go?”

“They don’t know.”

Two people who helped me.

Both gone.

I grip the counter.

“Check the others.”

“I did.”

The woman in Oklahoma died eight months ago.

One of the people who bought me a bus ticket never gave me a last name.

The woman with the garage moved without leaving a forwarding address.

The final number belongs to someone else now.

“That doesn’t make sense,” I whisper.

“People move,” Hayley says gently.

“Not all of them.”

The room becomes quiet.

I look at Sean.

“What if Navarro found them?”

“We don’t know that.”