CHAPTER NINETEEN
Her talk with Pearson had Avery feeling scared and jittery—an alarming chain of events, as Avery wasn’t someone who spooked easily. With no clear next step, she felt the urgent need to head back to Ramirez’s place to make sure Rose was still holding up okay. She was sure her daughter was irritable by now, a prisoner of her mother’s mess and having to put her life on hold. Of course, in the process, her life was likely being saved but Avery didn’t expect Rose to quite understand and appreciate that just yet.
The drive to Ramirez’s place took about forty minutes because of the congested flow of lunch-hour traffic. She wondered who was currently on surveillance detail and thought about being bold and driving out in front of the place just to see. But in the end, she stuck w
