Returning the cash would require a conversation with Autumn’s mother.

There would be receipts, signatures and a little inconvenience, not a movie-style handover of an expensive gift with no questions asked.

Noah barely touched the case.

Instead he asked whether anyone had spoken to Autumn that morning.

Morgan told him her family had been contacted, and that the girl’s wrist had been checked again.

She was home resting.

“Can I call her?”

“That’s a question for her family,” Morgan said.