“Who else has access to your inventory?” Noah asked. “Your vehicles? Besides you and your employees? Is there anyone?”
Milo and Reina stared at one another for a long moment, something passing between them. He said something under his breath that made her shake her head and draw apart from him.
“There is someone,” Josie pressed.
“No,” Reina said. “He wouldn’t be involved in anything like this.”
THIRTY-NINE
Josie’s heart thundered in her chest at the prospect of a viable lead. She tried not to look as eager as she felt. As she attempted to maintain her professional mask, Noah took the lead.
“Who is it?”
Milo touched Reina’s belly. Softening his voice, he said, “He wouldn’t, which is exactly why it won’t matter if we tell them.”
“I don’t want to drag him into anything,” she complained. “You saw how upset he was when he was here.”
“Whoever it is,” Josie assured her, finding her equilibrium, “if you give us his name, we’ll be able to rule out any involvement very quickly with just a few questions.”
Though the tingle in her gut told her that the person they were talking about wasn’t going to be ruled out at all.
Reina kept her eyes glued to her husband’s face. Clearly, she wasn’t going to give up the name of the person they were whispering about.
With a heavy sigh, Milo said, “Reina’s brother, Griffin. Griff. He’s minority owner in the business, but he has no involvement in day-to-day operations. Technically, he has access to everything we do.”
“But he’s never even around,” Reina said quickly. “He hasn’t worked here since he was in college. He travels a lot.”
“For work?” Noah prompted.
Reina nodded. “He’s a pharmaceutical rep for Quarmark. He travels all over central Pennsylvania to different medical offices.”
Electricity zinged through Josie’s veins. A pharmaceutical sales representative would be a frequent visitor to medical office buildings. It would give him ample opportunity to meet women like Dani and Maxine. They could subpoena records from his employer to see if they could place him at the office buildings both women worked in as well as the building in which Dani worked when she lived in Alden.
“What’s his last name?” Josie asked.
When Reina didn’t offer it, Milo said, “Holt.”
“When did you last see him?” said Noah.
Milo answered again. “About a month ago, give or take a week or two.”
It was after Maxine had started acting strangely, claiming she had a stalker, but right around the time that Cassidy claimed to have seen a man following her.
With a huff, Reina pushed to her feet, wobbling until Milo pressed a hand to her lower back, helping her stand up straight. “I have to use the restroom.”
She didn’t give them a chance to respond, instead disappearing down the path.
Milo curled forward, elbows on his knees, covering his face with both hands. He sighed heavily before looking back up at them. “I’m sorry. My wife is…protective of Griff. It’s just the two of them now that their parents are both gone. They’ve always been close.”
“We both have siblings,” Josie said. “We get it.”
“Is Griffin younger than her?” Noah asked.
“Older,” Milo said. “By two years. He’s a good guy, good to Reina and to me. Every bit as protective of her as she is of him.”
“Sounds like there’s a but at the end of that sentence,” Noah said.
Milo folded his hands and rested his chin on them. “But I think he’s just spent so much of his life focusing on her, making sure she’s safe and healthy, that she has everything she wants and needs, he’s neglected his own life. There were a few years after their dad died when one of the men who worked here, a good friend of their dad’s, kind of took advantage of Liora’s grief. From what Griff and Reina said, he seemed like he was after the business. Tried to exploit Liora’s vulnerability. The three of them were pretty devastated after Mr. Holt died. Not prepared to deal with a guy like that. He died a few years after Mr. Holt, but I think while he was in their lives, things were pretty ugly.”
