“Because the FBI’s anonymous tipper told him that my disappearance had something to do with Aleks,” she explains patiently. “The case was dying, and he was desperate to jumpstart it again. And desperate to find me. It gave him a second wind.”
“Rob,” I whisper. “He… he has to know about this. I have to tell him.”
She looks frightened suddenly for maybe the first time. “Liv, please… I don’t know if I’m ready for that.”
“For one, I’m still undercover on a mission. For another, it just wouldn’t be the closure you think it would be. Some things are better left buried.”
“We all wrote you off as dead, you know?” I seethe. “All except Rob. He kept saying it over and over again, even when no one else believed him. She’s alive. She’s out there somewhere. If she were dead, I would feel it in my b
