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They have lives, friends, dance classes or whatever.They have parents driving them around, and people notice when they are missing immediately.

“Not completely, but give me time to look at the other cases more closely.See if there are any themes or consistencies in what happened.”I walk to my bag and shove my towel in it, then lift it onto my shoulder.

“Which the Feds have done,” Liam adds.

“And we will do again.”He knows as well as I do that you never give up on cases—unless they get closed—and sometimes even after ten, twenty people have looked at them, one person can spot something new.

“Do it, let me know.Thomas, get as much information as you can...by whatever means.”Josh walks out, giving us all a nod.

By whatever means.

I don’t know why I keep thinking about Caylee when my mind should be on the job, but seeing her run off when she got a call...

Was it related?

Can’t be.










CHAPTER TEN

CAYLEE

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Ifeel like I’m goingto be sick.

Louisa is missing.

The cops and Louisa’s mom, Mrs.Rockfield, were in the waiting room when I got back to the clinic.She was hysterical.

Mrs.Rockfield is a top lawyer in the state and clearly got someone’s attention as it’s been much shorter than the normal window required to report a missing person.

No, none of my business, I guess, so I just went over and comforted her.

“I was a couple of minutes late,” Mrs.Rockfield cried.“I said I’d meet her outside the coffee shop downstairs, as there is space to pull the car up, and she wasn’t there.”

My stomach dropped.