It was unsettling how much the murdering felon suddenly sounded like Nate's father and step-mom. "After Marisa fled for her life, she ended up working in an orphanage in...a foreign country. A baby girl was left there, and Marisa fell in love. She adopted the girl."

"Good for her."

"That was four years ago. She stayed hidden and made a life for herself there. Three days ago, that little girl was kidnapped, along with Marisa's sister."

"Leslie?"

Charles remembered the cleaning lady's name? After everything that had happened? Nate made a note of that. "Leslie and Ana were snatched from a shopping center, and Marisa was given an ultimatum. Return the money stolen from you"—Nate nodded to Charles—"or her daughter and sister die."

Charles leaned forward. "Why doesn't she just return the money? Surely she hasn't spent it all. Unless she was living like a princess—"

"She doesn't have it."

"Bad investments?"

"Charles, she didn't steal your money."

He blinked, tilted his head to the side. "Of course she did. Nobody else could have done it."

"I'm here because I hoped you'd have some idea of who else might've stolen it."

Charles opened his mouth, snapped it shut. "But, if she didn't steal it, why did she run?"

"Weren't you going to kill her?"

"I just wanted my money back."

"She didn't steal your money."

"But nobody else—"

"We're talking in circles, Charles. It's irrelevant what you thought."

"Cops thought it, too."

"They were wrong. Marisa didn't take your money. She ran because she was afraid for her life, and because the feds thought she was guilty. She ran because she felt she had no other options. Frankly, I agreed with her on that."

"You helped her?"

"Just kept her hidden until she could make a plan. And gave her some traveling money."

Charles cleared his throat. "You're sure she doesn't have it?"

"They took her daughter. Don't you think she'd give them the money to get the girl back?"

"Maybe she likes the money—"

"I saw where she's been living. Trust me, she doesn't have it."

He took a long breath. "What do you want from me?"

"How did you find out Vinnie was planning to cooperate with the FBI?"

Charles's gaze settled on the wall behind Nate. "I guess it doesn't matter now. I was careful to keep quiet before, because she begged me, but..."

Nate waited, fairly certain what he was about to hear.

"Leslie told me she'd overheard Vinnie telling his girlfriend about the stuff he'd been doing, the system we'd been working."

"Leslie knew about the fraud?" Nate clarified.

Charles shook his head. "No details. I think Leslie just... G&K was her first sizable contract, and she wanted to keep in my good graces. And I think she didn't want her sister to marry Vinnie, though I always believed they made a good match, and Marisa was loyal to him."