The photograph showed Karen beside Dante.
Part 2
The photograph showed Karen beside Dante.
Not at the mansion.
At a pharmacy two blocks away, less than an hour before Emma vanished.
Santos tapped the timestamp. “Dante bought the sedative found in Emma’s blood.”
My stomach tightened. “Then why would he help expose it?”
“That’s what I wondered.”
The door opened.
Adrian Valente stepped inside.
For the first time, the mafia boss looked less angry than terrified.
“Dante disappeared this morning,” he said. “And Karen is dead.”
I stared at him.
Santos slid over a second photo.
It showed Dante carrying a sleeping Emma toward the dumpster.
But behind him, reflected faintly in a black car window, stood someone else.
Adrian leaned closer.
His face drained of color.
Because the reflection wasn’t a stranger.
It was Emma’s mother.
And she had been declared dead eight months ago.
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