I kept my face perfectly still.
And then Priscilla, who never could stand to be left out of her son’s cruelty, made it worse.
“Nobody will ever find anything,” she said. “That property’s been abandoned for years. And Marissa’s belongings are hidden where no one would ever think to look.”
“Mother,” Roman snapped. “That’s enough.”
But I had already heard it all.
The farm. Kentucky. Marissa’s belongings. The financial records. A disappearance that sounded nothing like the story I’d been told for years.
I didn’t accuse him. I didn’t argue.
I simply remembered every word.
That night, I asked Frost to take everything to Detective Nunez — and to pull the historical property records tying Roman’s family to that farm.
One document mattered most of all.
It named Roman personally as the man who had managed work on that property during the exact season Marissa Thorne vanished.
Chapter 4: Stop the Transfer
