Ex got to his feet. “When I was pulling out of the resort parking lot, I heard sirens coming from the other direction. I probably got out just in time.”

Teo and I stood, too, and I told Ex a detail he apparently didn’t know. “Somebody called housekeeping and asked for more towels. The maid went to deliver them and found the body.”

“Your sister.” He thrust his hands in his pockets. “You know I’m just going to disappear again, don’t you?”

“Nobody can predict what’s going to happen next,” Teo said. “If I were you, I’d keep an eye on the news.”

“You mean in case Wendy has an attack of conscience and admits she killed him? That’s never going to happen. I’ll be on the run for the rest of my life.”

“Whether you’re telling the truth or not, I’m not going to tell her where you are,” I said.

I don’t think he believed me. “So? You found me. Someone else will do what you did.”

“You said it yourself. Extradition is tricky.”

“You think I’m worried about the cops? I don’t want to end up like Calvo.” Hands still in his pockets, he headed back the way we’d come.

Teo and I stood shoulder to shoulder until he was no longer in sight. “Do you think he’s telling the truth?” I asked as the darkness closed in around us.

“What do you think?”

I was struggling to put everything together. “Right from the beginning Wendy was after me to find him. That’s all she wanted. She claimed she wanted to tell the police where he was.”

Teo was still staring into the shadows. “If you told her tonight that you found him, what do you think would happen?”

I didn’t want to answer.

“I think her reason for wanting to find him is simple. It’s all about the gun,” he said.

“She wanted to know where the gun ended up.”

“Everything hinges on whether Ex is telling the truth. But if he is? If things had played out the way she’d planned, and the sheriff had found the gun beside the body, along with everything she planted, then your sister could have gone home and resumed her life.”

“Because Ex’s fingerprints were on the bullets.”

“But if Ex took the gun and disposed of it, she had two choices. To disappear forever, in case he came forward or someone at the resort identified her, or to find him and make sure he never told anybody what happened that night. Because if he did tell his story, for whatever reason, it wouldn’t be as simple as his word against hers. Wendy’s the one who knew Calvo.”

Teo turned to me, sympathy in his eyes. “You’ll have to decide where you’re going to go with this, Ryan. I know it’s a lot to think about tonight.”

I had already decided. “There’s only one thing I can do, but I know you’re not going to like it. I’m going to find and talk to Wendy. I have to. It’s the only way my family will ever have closure.”