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Bert said goodbye to us in the prison parking lot.

“Don’t do anything stupid,” he cautioned me. “Give it 48 hours. The system will work.”

“Right,” I said sarcastically. “Because it’s worked so well so far.”

Bert gave me a scolding look, then nodded at Sebastian and Johnny. “Gentlemen, I’ll be in touch,” he said, then got in his Mercedes and drove off.

“What do we do now?” I asked Sebastian and Johnny in despair.

“Apparently, we go home and wait,” Sebastian said, sounding almost as hopeless as I felt.

As we all got in the car, I heard my cell phone chime.

Eve had sent me a new text message:

Screw waiting. Want to do something crazy?

An hour later, Sebastian, Johnny, and I sat around my phone in the penthouse, staring at the screen.

I used your document on Miranda as a starting point. I thought you were exaggerating how secretive she was.

“I wasn’t,” Sebastian said.

I figured that out pretty quickly. She’s good – I’ll give her that. I searched high and low, and I finally found several