Chapter 7 - The Missing Link
That evening, Detective Miller called David with urgent news.
"We found the unlicensed contractor," Miller said, his voice tight. "Or, rather, we found his remains. Buried in the desert outside Phoenix."
"Elena killed him?" David asked, stunned.
"Elena doesn't have the upper-body strength to strangle a two-hundred-pound man," Miller replied. "We found DNA on the tarp wrapping the body. David... it belongs to Mark. Elena’s ex-husband."
The puzzle pieces snapped together with horrifying clarity. Mark hadn't just helped Elena dig the hole. He had helped her steal Leo. They had orchestrated the entire kidnapping under the delusion that Leo was the reincarnation of the child they had lost. Mark had silenced the contractor to protect their twisted secret, and then stayed in the shadows while Elena played the grieving aunt.
"Where is Mark?" David demanded, his blood running cold.
"He’s in the wind. We think he attended the trial today in disguise. We’re putting an APB out now, but David... we found a rental car receipt in his apartment. He rented a grey SUV yesterday. The GPS pinged an hour ago."
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"Where?"
"Two miles from your new house in Texas."
