Chapter 58

Dean’s POV

Kessler doesn't waste time on comfort. She's out of her car before it's even fully stopped, badge already out, eyes moving fast over all of us.

"Okay. From the top. When did anyone last see her?"

"Little after four," Roxie says, voice still shaking. "She was chasing a cat by the tables. I checked on her twenty minutes later and she was gone."

"Any contact since the first text? Calls, texts, anybody see a vehicle?"

"Nothing. We searched the whole property before we called you."

"Full name of the guy you think has her."

"Ray Alvarez," I say. "Detective. Millhaven PD."

Kessler goes still. For a second she doesn't say anything, and when she does her voice sounds different than it did thirty seconds ago.

"Ray Alvarez? I worked cases with that man in the same building for six years. Why would he do that?"