Chapter 31. Family Business

Rae POV

I showed the photo to Judge, Wade and Eli at six the next morning, in Judge's office, with the door shut.

Nobody said anything for a long time. Judge took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes.

"That photo came from a deputy who'll lose his badge if anyone knows he sent it," he said finally.

"I know," I said. "So we don't use it. We use what it tells us."

"Which is?"

"That Crystal goes to my father's garage to get paid. That she's been there at least once." I set my phone face down on the desk. "And people who get paid once usually come back."

Wade had been quiet the whole time, standing by the window. Now he turned around.

"There's something I should've told you three days ago," he