He did not answer her.

There was nothing left to say to a woman who had just confessed, on tape, to arranging his brother’s murder.

The recording, the financial transfers, the photograph, and Maria’s testimony would be enough, in time, to connect Vanessa Hart to fraud, to money laundering, and to attempted murder.

But there was still one thing the evidence could not do.

It could not tell him where his brother was.

Chapter 16 — Auburn, Friday