“He’ll find me, wherever I go. Win finds girls. That’s what he does.”

“We can get a court order,” Eden said. “Do you know what that is? A judge’ll sign a piece of paper that says you have to tell us what you know. And you’ll have to let a medical examiner see your back. If you refuse, you’ll go to jail.”

“He was drunk. He said he made a mistake.” Tears rolled down Albright’s face. “He didn’t mean to kill that girl. He said…if I told anyone he’d kill me, too. I didn’t know where to go or who to tell. I called that night, but then he found me. I lied to him. I was so scared. Every day I was scared. He said he’d choke me like that girl and put my body somewhere my mom would never find it. My body’d be alone in a hole. Nobody would ever know.”

Cipriani bent close to Albright. “He’s not going to hurt you. You understand? We’re going to get you somewhere safe, and we’re going to arrest your boyfriend. But you have to tell us what you know.”

Albright wiped her arm across her nose. “I’ll tell you, but I won’t be safe. It don’t matter where you hide me or where you lock him up. And he’ll come after you, too.” Albright looked at Eden. “He don’t like you. He told me.”

At the words, Eden felt herself stiffen. She took a breath. “We’re going to arrest him, Lorin. He won’t bother anyone.”

“It won’t never be over with him,” Albright said. “Never. There’s ones he’s killed the police don’t even know about. When it comes to killing a girl, Win’s smart. He’s smarter than all of you put together.”

Chapter Thirty-Four

(i)

(FRIDAY, 11:15 A.M.)

Victor ran down the corridor of the thirty-seventh floor, past the front door to his condo, to the end of the hall and the rear entrance. He tapped his phone and looked at the webcam feed for the space just inside the rear entrance, a laundry room. It was empty. He scanned his keycard in the lock and stepped inside.

Moving noiselessly across the small room, he stopped at the inner door and listened. Music played inside the condo—Imagine Dragons, blasting “Radioactive.” He pulled Rivas’s gun from behind his back and flipped off the safety. In his other hand, he held the phone. The webcam feed showed the next room, the master bedroom, was empty.