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Simon wants us to find Ivy’s camera.
Or he wants us to believe that we can.
The computer technician speaks from the other side of the room.
“Agent Marquez, we found a property connected to one of the prepaid phones.”
“Where?”
“A marine salvage yard inside the waterfront search area.”
“Owner?”
The technician enlarges the registration record.
The company was purchased six years ago.
The same year Marcus Bell disappeared.
“Who owns it?” Elliot asks through the secure connection.
The technician looks toward us.
“Marcus Bell.”
Elliot rises so quickly that Scott has to stop him from hitting the side of the transport vehicle.
“That’s impossible.”
A photograph appears beside the property record.
The license was renewed eight months ago.
Marcus is older than the picture Thomas remembers, but the face is unmistakable.
Arthur Bell’s missing son is alive.
Ben looks toward the false paramedic lying handcuffed outside Hazel’s building.
“Marquez, get that man’s fingerprints.”
An officer presses the man’s thumb against a portable scanner.
The result appears within seconds.
Marcus Arthur Bell.
Elliot’s brother didn’t disappear six years ago.
He joined Simon.
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CALLE
“The closer a hunter comes to his prey, the quieter the forest becomes.”
—James Sinclair
