chapter 39

ASHTON

We were leaving the downtown warehouse, which at one point had had three guests, but we made the decision to separate the Worthings. Avery would take them to the compound and put them into the warehouse their detective cousin had vacated earlier. Their interrogation would be a much longer process.

“Marco is still at Katya?”

I was checking my phone, then cursing when I saw all the missed calls and texts.

“What?”

I called Eze, my main guy I’d left on Molly. “What’s going on?”

“Molly and Jess left the house earlier today.”

“What?” I put him on speaker. “You’ve got me and Trace.”

“I followed. Your orders were to stay back if Montell was in the house with her. Well, they went to Easter Lanes—”

“Where are they now?”

“The police station.”

Trace jackknifed forward. “What?”

They kept talking, but I went scrolling through the rest of my phone. My sources from all departments were alerting me. I clicked on the last one.

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