Chapter 39
JAY
I didn’t say goodbye to Maggie. I followed her inside, watched her walk away. She was leaving Vegas and wouldn’t come back. I’d never see her again.
Look back at me, I silently begged her. She didn’t.
It was better if she didn’t come back. She was safer that way.
I visited Simon in the hospital. He’d had surgery to remove the bullet lodged in his side, barely missing his kidneys. He had to stay and recover, but he’d be fine.
“Do you have any leads on Fred Madsen?” he asked, wincing as he shifted in bed.
I shook my head. “I’ve been scouring the internet for any trace, but there’s nothing. We don’t have a picture of him to use facial recognition software. We don’t know his real name so we don’t know who we’re looking for.”
“I won’t let some punk get one over on me, and
