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In the parking garage, Parker and Peyton crawled into the backseat of the Dodge, Nate took the front passenger seat, and Kai slid behind the wheel. After disarming the ignition lock, he backed out of his space, saw that Lucas’s van was gone, then waited for room in the traffic so he could pull into the flow. No one said anything as John Fogerty sang about “Proud Mary”.
Nate couldn’t see a pattern in the places Kai had marked on the map, but it didn’t mean one didn’t exist. Maybe Kai included too much information, and it obscured what was right in front of them.
Parker took out his phone and continued to work the algorithm to c***k the coded address.
Kai’s phone chimed, so he pulled it from his pocket and looked at the screen when he stopped at a light.
The text from Mason read, Her
