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Maize glanced over her shoulder. “I wonder who owns it now they’re dead.”
Kenna smirked. “I say we put them on the market as the owners, sell them, and give the proceeds to a children’s home. Or some kind of trafficking victim’s assistance place.”
Maizie shot her a grin, shadowed though it was. “I found a few of those. We could make a big anonymous donation. I’ve been reading testimonials from the people who live in one.”
“Yeah?”
Maizie nodded. “Elizabeth wanted me to see what they do. Not really so I can go stay there or whatever.” Her tone took on an edge. “I don’t want…”
“No one is going to make you go anywhere you don’t want to go,” Kenna said. “Or do anything you don’t want to do.”
“What if I don’t want to make my bed?”
Kenna glanced at the perfectly made bed, wondering if Maizie had actually slept since she and Stairns arrived here.
Maizie said, “I mean my bed in the trailer.”
“Ah.” Kenna wanted Maizie to make her father’s trailer her home, still she winced like not making the bed was the worst. “You’re going to be a slob?” She even added a mock gasp at the end.
“I know.” Maizie sighed. “I’m a terrible person.”
Kenna chuckled.
“Maybe I am, since I haven’t found Javier yet.”
Kenna squeezed her shoulder. “This isn’t a country where you can run an ID and get a surveillance hit.” Far as she could tell there weren’t any cameras on the street in town, and she hadn’t seen many camera doorbells.
“Nothing on social media either.” Maizie sighed. “This Kart guy is too smart for that. He knows how to stay below the radar.” Maybe that was why he’d moved to this part of the world in the first place.
“Let’s think this through.” Kenna went back to finish lacing her second boot and set her foot on the carpet. “If he kills Javier, he would want Navarro to know. If he wants money, or some other kind of payback, then why didn’t he contact Navarro for that as well? What’s he waiting for?” She couldn’t help thinking there was something she was missing here.
Unless Kart had contacted Navarro and no one told her.
“Does it have to do with Sheriff Preston coming?” Maizie said. “Maybe he’s holed up waiting for his cousin to get here until he does what he is going to do.”
Kenna had been under the impression Elliot called the shots. She thought over that…waiting for instructions from the boss? “Bonus, Navarro is going to be out of his mind with worry until Kart delivers the message. Maybe cousin Elliot really is the one who calls the shots.” She worked her mouth side to side. “But with all of Navarro’s men out looking for the boy—”
“And us.”
Kenna nodded. “There’s a whole lot of attention on the town, and people out looking for Kart.” She bounced her knee. “What is his endgame?”
“I think he wants to believe he’s the big man, but he actually has to wait for Elliot for orders.”
Or Kart would turn the boy over to Elliot, maybe.
Perhaps that was the ultimate payback for Navarro—to know the boy was a captive. Kenna pushed off the implications, not wanting to swim in thoughts of the worst things a man could do to a child. She prayed it wasn’t that.
And prayed Maizie wouldn’t have to live with the knowledge another child grew up the way she had.
“Give me a lead.” Kenna sighed. “Something.” She didn’t mean for her tone to be so short, but frustration ran hot. She had to do something or she would drown in the worry. The fear.
“I’m working on it.”
“I know you are, Maze.” Kenna shifted over on the bed and grabbed the phone Maizie had given her right after she was rescued. It looked like one of her dad’s old flip phones. She hadn’t thought they even made those anymore. “Huh.”
“What is it?”
“I have messages. It’s Ramon. Just says,Call me.” She shook her head and dialed the number, putting the phone to her ear.
