Chapter 23

Jesse reached behind him and picked up a plain folder. He held it out, patiently waiting for her to take it, though her fingers were numb. “They were able to make a positive ID on a print. She was definitely present at some point during the night.”

She glanced over the reports in the folder, the words blurring to nonsense before her eyes. Only the important details stood out. The name. The police report their parents had filed when she’d gone missing. It was her sister, if not the sister she thought she had known.

“Maybe she was there under duress,” she said. “Maybe Andre dragged her along for the ride.”

Jesse and Gideon exchanged a brief glance that spoke louder than anything Jess could have said. That didn’t stop him from trying, though.

“Maybe. There are several possibilities. But at least we know she’s still alive, and she’s still in the city.”