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JJ’s fingers were still wrapped around my wrist when she said it.
Every instinct I had wanted to do the opposite.
Millie was inside that property. We had Bones’s truck beside one of the outbuildings, two separate camera shots confirming the kid he had transported was JJ’s daughter, and now a distant photograph of her near the farmhouse. After weeks of chasing vehicles, handoffs, dead routes, and properties that led nowhere, we finally knew where she was.
I wanted to get in the SUV and go.
Instead, I stayed on Benny’s couch and called Jarek.
He answered immediately. “Tell me.”
“We have positive identification on the kid. JJ confirmed her.”
Across from me, JJ had already pulled the laptop closer again. She looked exhausted, but there was nothing foggy about her now. Her attentio
