If you want to know what they’re planning to do to your daughter next, meet me tomorrow at nine at the city park.

Come alone. I showed it to Gaby, and she gasped.

“Dad — that’s Tyler.

He’s Derek’s most trusted enforcer.” And I understood, reading it again, something colder than the threat itself: if the Millers’ most loyal man was willing to betray them for money, then whatever they were planning for my daughter was worse than anything we had yet imagined.

Chapter 7 — The Park

At nine the next morning I went to the park alone, and found Tyler on a bench, jittery, checking the paths around him.