I Vanished with the Don's True Heir novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: The Server

Nobody said anything until the anchor moved on to the weather.

Then Orsola took off her glasses and folded them.

"Well," she said. "Now we know he watches the news too."

Livio turned off the TV.

"It's evidence," I said. "Everything in that building. The files. The machines."

"Was evidence."

Livio was looking at the dark screen. "But fires don't burn people who ran out the back door."

We drove to Cherry Hill at seven the next morning.

The clinic was at the end of a strip mall on Route 70, between a dentist and a mattress store.

Now it was a black shell behind yellow tape. The roof had fallen in. The sign over the door had melted until it said nothing at all.

I stood at the tape and looked at the place that had written my daughter off as a stranger's.

"Caterina," Livio said quietly.

He wasn't looking at the clinic.

He was looking past it, at the dentist's parking lot.

There was one car in it. A small grey hatchback, parked nose out, with fogged windows.

Somebody was inside.

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