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Reaching into my pocket, I pull out my phone.
“Slate. What’s going on?” Mike answers. “You all set for today?”
“Yes, but that’s not why I’m calling.”
“Okay,” he says, and I hear him typing on the other end. “What’s going on?”
“Your guy…”
“You’re going to have to be a little more specific. Which guy?”
“The PI,” I say. “I want to know what info he found when we looked into Pip.”
Mike grunts. “There was nothing. She completely disappeared after she turned eighteen.”
I groan, running my hand through my hair. “There’s got to be more.”
“What do you mean?” His voice is hard. Questioning.
“Forget it. I’ll talk to you later. Also send me your guy’s number,” I say, hanging up.
We already exhausted that, and I need to organize my thoughts before I bring Mike or anyone else into it.
Or I just need to let it go.
I head over to the living room, sit on the couch, and cue up the footage to watch.
My knee shakes like it always does as I watch, but today the sound of the bouncing grates on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard.
I can’t get my head in the game. Changing positions, I lean forward, placing my elbows on my thighs. Maybe I won’t be annoyed by the sound in this position.
Unfortunately, it does nothing to sort my head.
All I want is to know what Cass is hiding.
What secrets can she possibly have?
A lot.
Knowing where she came from and the type of people she was surrounded by, I can only imagine the endless possibilities.
What I don’t understand is why she’s hiding things from me.
For years, I wasn’t a part of her life. A million things could have happened during those years. Too many things.
And even though I did a background check on Cassidy Baker, I don’t know if I missed something.
Except that’s not true.
I did one on Pip…and that didn’t find anything. Because in the time I knew Pip, I never even realized her real name wasn’t Pip. Hence the issue Mike had locating her.
I was such a selfish prick during my senior year of high school when I met her that it didn’t even dawn on me that Pippa wasn’t her real name.
By the time I had the resources to look into Pippa, she was already eighteen and gone.
That’s when I ran into a dead end, and I certainly wasn’t going back to Michigan to find out from her dad.
The truth is, that would have been a dead end.
