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“Look how that turned out,” I said. “Everyone knows he’s alive.”

“His company closed after he died,” Holt adds. “That gave Frank the freedom to use the trucks without anyone watching the business.”

I turn toward him.

“Frank knew Patrick was alive?”

“We don’t know.”

“But Patrick knew about Sally.”

“Yes.”

“And he knew Marisol was at the ranch.”

Kane looks at me.

“That appears likely.”

“What if Frank took her there because he thought Patrick was dead?”

“Then Patrick’s death gave him exactly what he needed,” Sean says from behind me. “A way to find Marisol.”

I remember Patrick’s face through the curtain.

He wasn’t angry about losing a girl.

He was afraid.

Not for Marisol.

For himself.

“Navarro didn’t know Patrick helped Greg,” I say.

Kane’s attention sharpens.

“What makes you think that?”

“Greg told Patrick to fix it before Navarro found out. If Patrick worked for Navarro, he would already know.”

“Unless Patrick was doing something without permission,” Taylor says.

“What?”

Nobody answers.

I think about the warehouse.

Marisol being pushed toward a car.

Greg taking me through the side door.

Men shouting after I hit one, and then the another one.

Marisol escaping with the ledger.

“Sally changed the route,” I say.