“I’ve been selected to go undercover and find out,” Ace guessed.
“I can do that,” Harvey said. “In fact, I can answer it now. It’s Victoria who is the malicious bully in the Morrison house. Even her son is trying to get away from the entire family and has applied to a university in Miami, where he wants to stay and work.”
“Yes, I believe he is throwing in the badge to become an engineer,” Mina drawled. “Good for him. Besides his father, Clive is the only other one in that household I’d trust.”
“Mother, you just don’t like Victoria or Sienna,” Holt said on a sigh, then turned to Ace. “I have to agree with Margo on this one.” His eyes narrowed. “Can you do it?”
“Of course,” Ace said. “It will mean I have to accept Victoria's pre-leaving party dinner invitation at the yacht club.”
“Victoria’s having a pre-leaving party?” June looked at Ace in amazement.
“Yup!” Ace blew out a breath. “The woman does love attention.”
“Good grief!” June breathed. “What’s she going to have for her leaving party?”
“Probably a full parade,” Margo offered. “Then a massive street party complete with a fair, stalls, and farewell speeches.”
“Margo,” Willa said with a laugh. “That’s what you’re planning to do when Victoria leaves. You’ve been planning the ‘Move Victoria to Miami Party’ since you found out she's moving to Miami…” Her face dropped, and she glanced up. “Miami!”
“What about Miami?” Ace asked, and Willa gave him a cold look before dismissing him and turning to her mother and Holt.
“It’s probably nothing.”
“But…” June asked.
Willa’s head turned to Margo. “Do you remember the day of…” Her eyes darkened. “That day ten years ago. We were at Teacups right before Shaun, and Travis left on that call.”
“I…” Margo tried to think, but her mind always seemed to draw a blank when she thought about that day. She tried only remembering how happy she’d been before everything went so horribly wrong. “What about it?”
“Shaun leaned in to kiss me before he left and whispered.” Willa’s eyes took on a faraway look. “I still thought, that’s strange, what’s in Miami?”
“Yes, I remember now,” Margo said, as it clicked. “You were frowning when he left because he said, ‘remember to look in Miami.’”
“When I asked what that was supposed to mean, he said, ‘Hopefully we’ll find out together,’” Willa said, and her headsnapped around to her mother. “Mom, did you receive anything from Shaun or one of the other three firefighters back then?”
“No.” June frowned as she thought about it. “No, sweetheart, not that I recall.” Her frown deepened. “I would’ve told you about it.”
“What about Aunt Carmen?” Willa said, pulling out her phone, and her finger flew over the screen. “Maybe she received it.”
“I’m sure she would’ve told me,” June pointed out. “Where are you going with this?”
“What if we couldn’t find anything about what Gilbert was working on or uncovered because it had been sent to Miami?” Willa suggested, her eyes glued to her phone. Her brow furrowed. “Aunt Carmen said no as well.”
“It could’ve been sent to your old address?” Mina reasoned.
“No, the new owners were very good with forwarding anything to my mother,” Willa told her.
“Why didn’t you tell us what Shaun had said?” June asked her.
“It didn’t seem relevant at the time,” Willa answered. “But then I realized most of the people we suspected of being the criminal had or were moving to Miami.”
“Willa has a point,” Margo said. “That’s where I believe Alvin lives now, Clive is moving there, and soon Victoria will be going.”
“I can ask my housekeeper to look,” June offered. “But I’d have known, sweetheart.”
“I can fly you up when we’re back from the camping trip,” Ace offered. “Maybe a few of us could go. You have a big house, and we could all cover more ground.”
“That’s an excellent idea,” Mina agreed. “I volunteer as I can get some business that I need to attend to there done at the same time.”
