But he'd never admit it out loud.
He couldn't face the truth that he'd pushed Calixta away with his own two hands, step by step, hurt her so badly that she'd refused to leave even the tiniest crumb of news for him.
All he could do was cling to the faint hope that he'd stumble on some scrap of news about her in college.
The sharp trill of his phone yanked him out of his wandering thoughts.
Eliseo grabbed his brand-new flip phone off the coffee table. "Hello?"
A stiff, by-the-book voice came through the line. "Hello, Mr. Ashford. We have an update on the person you asked us to locate."
Eliseo's hands shook so bad he almost dropped the phone. "Where is she?"
"According to our investigators, someone spotted her in Seabrook."
The words were barely out of their mouth when a few MMS messa
