Two Cops Showed Up the Morning After He Ran Off

be a juvenile on the property.”

I frowned. “A what?”

“A juvenile. A minor child.”

I just looked at him.

Then I laughed again, harder this time, one ugly bark of a laugh.

“I have never given birth. Ethan never had children. And if he suddenly found one in Cancun, I don’t think they made it back before breakfast.”

Merrill said, “He told dispatch a fourteen-year-old continue reading …