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“I guess I have better sources than the police departments you were working with.”
She sighed. “Of course you do.”
“Unfortunately, that means she’s still on the move. We’ll have to wait for her to make another call to home in on her position.”
“It’s strange, but I just told her that we’d never give up and we’d do everything to find her. I had no idea that you were already zeroing in on her.”
“Things are moving a little fast. We would have discussed it soon. I wasn’t trying to keep you out of it.”
But things always moved fast with Lynch, Kendra thought dryly. With all his contacts and tech assistance he was able to function at lightning speed. “I’ll accept that for the moment. Let’s just have the discussions a little quicker.”
“Correction noted and accepted. It won’t happen again.”
But Kendra was already moving on. “I don’t know how Tricia thinks she’s going to find Milo when all the resources of the FBI haven’t been able to do it.” Then she had a sudden thought. “Unless…Tricia has a plan for him to findher.”
“Interesting. A dangerous plan.”
She shuddered. “You got that right.”
Lynch was receiving a text. He raised his phone and stared at it.
She asked curiously, “Another message from your source?”
“Your source, too. A text from Griffin. Check your inbox. It looks like Tricia Walton has resurfaced somewhere else.”
“What?” Kendra gasped and she leaned over to look at his phone. “Where?”
“In the sports section of theSan Diego Union-Tribune. She gave an interview to their columnist. It just went live in the last five minutes.” Lynch skimmed the story. “You’ll want to read this. Tricia’s quit her swim team and pulled out of the next several solo events. She says she’s leaving town to train on her own.”
Kendra picked up her phone and found the link in Griffin’s text. She was dashing through Tricia’s interview. “She also says she doesn’t know when or if she’s coming back…She wants to simplify her life and get back to her roots. She wants to be by herself and get back to a time and place of her life that’s been lost to her for years now, when and where she first fell in love with swimming. Back when she was a high school sophomore…”
“That was the year she was attacked,” Lynch said grimly.
“Exactly.” Kendra looked up as the realization hit her. “Oh, no. Shit. Tricia’s going to the summer house.”
“Her family’s lake house?”
“Yes.” She put down her phone. “And what’s more, she wants Milo to know it. That’s what this interview is all about. She wants to draw him out.”
“Are you sure?”
“No, how could I be? But I’m betting I’m right about it. That’s where everything changed for her.” Kendra paced across the room. “Remember? Tricia told us so herself. After she was attacked out there, her family boarded up the cabin and they never went back. That part of her life came to an end. She wants to take it back, and part of that is ending Milo once and for all.”
He cursed softly. “I think you may be right.”
“Then we have to go out there.Now.”
“Do you know where it is?”
Kendra reached for her tablet computer. “It’ll be in the police crime report when she was attacked. I have it right here.”
Chapter
19
Tricia sat on the picnic bench at the water’s edge, staring at the rippling waves. Lake Spindle was one of thousands of lakes in California’s High Sierra, but this one had always been special. To her family, this had always beentheirlake, ever since her great-great-grandparents had purchased all the livable surrounding land over a hundred years before. Even in drought years, the small lake received a generous supply of water from the Sierra snowpack, providing a spectacular focal point for family gatherings and summer recreational activities. The property’s lakefront cabin, dubbed Endless Summer, had hosted generations of good times and cherished memories.
Until the dayhearrived and destroyed everything.
