The house was in a rundown neighborhood, located nearly an hour away from the city center. When Kade got there, he had no trouble identifying which house to go to. A police car was already parked right outside it. But before he could even feel pleasantly surprised, he saw two officers walking leisurely down the driveway to get back to their vehicle. They did their jobs, all right, but it seemed it was only the bare minimum. Maybe there was nothing untoward for them to find. Kade highly doubted it, but there was always the chance of that. He stopped his own car two houses down and waited for the officers to leave before getting out. While walking the remaining distance to Dennis’ house, he typed Arden a text message. “Here now. Cops just came by but did nothing. About to knock on the

