He expelled a breath, then said, “Well, we’ll stay focused on La Cienega for now, and if that doesn’t turn up anything, we’ll start looking at other options. It’s probably best not to have Daniel scatter his resources too much anyway.”
“True.” Cat reached into her backpack purse, which had been hanging off the ladder-back chair where she was sitting, and pulled out her new phone. She went to the list of her recent messages, then typed out a rapid-fire message — to Daniel, Rafe presumed, to let him check the property records in La Cienega and environs for any recent sales.
It was probably a long shot. Even paying cash, you just didn’t buy a house overnight, which was basically the timeframe they were working with. Unless Simon had been planning for a backup hideout all along, knowing that
