CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXI pulled myself upright in the seat, feeling like an i***t.
I’d been so wrapped up in my thoughts, I hadn’t noticed the truck pull up to the loading dock only about fifty feet away. And when the damn thing backfired, I could’ve sworn it was a gunshot.
I had just collected my wits, when Amber emerged from the building with a stocky brown woman in tow. The woman’s hair was pulled back and tucked under a ball cap. She wore a striped T-shirt, jeans, and a worried look.
Amber hustled Luisa into the car’s back seat, murmuring in Spanish. Luisa looked from Amber to me, brown eyes growing wider by the second.
“I’ve explained who you are and that you need to know about Maria Benitez. Do you have more specific questions?” Amber asked.
“Luisa, what have you heard about Maria an
