Chapter 270

“Victor had an informant. Someone in Montilla’s inner circle.” She licked her lips. Her next admission would tell Trees so much… “I offered him the location of his boss’s car and the man who had stolen it if he told me where to find Kimber.”

Trees sent her a weighty stare. “So you sold Ramos out. Then you called Valeria with the information, and she passed it to EM Security.”

She nodded. “Now Kimber is safe, yes? How is she?”

“Better than expected. No one raped, beat, tortured, or starved her.”

“They would not. She was too valuable a pawn to risk. If they had abducted her to exploit her or to use her as an instrument of revenge, their treatment would have been much different.”

“Makes sense that they didn’t abuse her. They always intended to exchange her.”

“For Valeria and Jorge. That is why I tried to beat them at their own game.”

“Gutsy,” Trees said with admiration, then his expression became a glower. “But dangerous and absolutely forbidde