Chapter 54

[Atlas]

I don’t know whether or not I want to hug my brother or punch him. Somehow he had found a pattern that the police had missed, even though they had been given a month so far to find her.

“Why didn’t you offer any of this to the police?” I wonder aloud. “Maybe this could have helped crack the case.”

“I tried, but they informed me that all of this surveillance was technically illegal and that none of it would hold up in a court of law.” He shrugged. “I tried there first before coming to discuss all of this with you. I had been…” he pauses before continuing “...hoping that I could help without getting directly involved. If they had just taken my footage I’d…”

He doesn’t need to finish his sentence. He probably didn’t want to tell me about his surveillance of Cordelia and me. Considering how bad it makes him look, I can almost understand his motivation.

“I also wanted to verify some of my suspicions first before I came to you. So I hired a private investigator.” He explains as he