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“Where?”

“I don’t know.”

“Think about the words,” Kane says. “Not what you thought they meant. What did they actually say?”

I force myself back into the memory.

Patrick’s voice was quieter than Greg’s.

That’s why I moved closer to the partially opened door.

“She wasn’t supposed to be there,” he said. “Sally changed the route.”

I look at Kane.

“He mentioned Sally.”

Everyone goes still.

“What else?” Sean asks.

“Greg told him to fix it before Navarro found out.”

Hayley moves beside me.

“Did they mention Frank?”

“I don’t remember.”

“Don’t force it,” she says.

Sean nods.

“Your mother’s right.”

The words nearly make me smile.

Your mother.

He says it as if he has always been allowed to.

As if we are already a family instead of three people trying to build one out of everything that was stolen from us.

Taylor closes the computer.

“We can question her on the plane.”

“No,” Sean says. “She rests on the plane.”

“I’m not tired.”

“You were baking pastries at three this morning.”

“That was yesterday.”

“It was six hours ago.”

Arthur lifts my bag.