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“Exploring?”
Her eyes were wide, and she nodded. “Look at this.” She handed me a frame. The photo in it resembled her as a teenager.
“The likeness is almost uncanny.”
“That’s what I thought. Every picture I’ve seen of who I’m assuming is Blanche looks like me. Or I guess I look like her. There’s got to be a connection; I just can’t figure out what in the world it could be.”
“Hey, Beau,” I heard Cru call out. “We need you back down here.”
“What’s going on?” Sam asked.
“I’m not certain. When I know more, I’ll give you an update.”
Based on Sam’s scowl, my eye must have twitched.
“I received a call from Daphne. She was whispering, and it sounded as though she’d been crying. After telling me she was in serious trouble and asking for my help, she said she had to ring off and abruptly ended the call.”
She studied me, then turned and walked in the opposite direction.
“I’ll just be a moment,” I shouted down to Cru before following Sam. “What’s going on?” I asked when she went into the sitting room I’d discovered the one and only time I was on the second floor. She set the frame on a table.
“Nothing.”
“Hold on.” I gently grabbed her arm as she tried to walk past me. “Talk to me, Samantha.”
“Cru is waiting for you. You should get downstairs.”
I shook my head. “He can wait.”
Sam folded her arms. “What about Daphne?”
“I’m more concerned about you.”
I waited what felt like minutes before she finally spoke.
“Don’t lie to me about her.”
“It wasn’t a lie. I truly don’t know more than what I’ve told you.”
“We’ll talk about it later.”
I felt like a child being scolded. “We’ll talk about it now.”
Sam raised her brow at my harsh tone. “You know you lied, Beau. Maybe your relationship with Daphne isn’t quite as over as you said.”
“This is ludicrous. You’re angry over a bloody eye twitch?”
Her eyes scrunched. “I’m angry over alie.”
“We’ll talk about this later.” Only after I spoke the words did it dawn on me I’d just repeated the very thing Sam said moments ago.
When she left the room and walked in the opposite direction of the stairs, I didn’t follow.
I foundCru and Decker looking at something on the latter’s laptop. “What have you discovered?”
“It looks like she’s in New York City,” said Cru.
“I was able to triangulate her location and set up movement tracking. She’s at the Cambria Hotel, and before you say it, the coincidence of her being at a hotel with the same name as the coastal town in California isn’t lost on me. You should also know it’s a dump.”
