7. Hendricks
HENDRICKS
It’s dusk when I head to Blackthorn Ranch. I time it so everyone will assume I drove in from Chicago. Fewer questions that way.
As I navigate the backroads, I mentally pull up all the information I’ve gathered about Mandy’s sister.
On the surface, Lily Carter is picture perfect: veterinarian, graduated top of her class, good resumé, quiet citizen.
Look a little closer and you’ll notice that her life seems to have started thirteen years ago.
I know through Mason, her partner, that she’d been taken with Mandy, but Mandy had managed to make a diversion that allowed Lily to escape after only a couple weeks.
I had to pull some strings to find out she’d reconstructed her identity after being taken, with some help from the federal agent assigned to her case, though the trail was well covered.
I figure if anyone knows where Mandy is, it’s Lily. The question is whether she’ll tell me.
I’m not holding my breath.