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“What aren’t you saying?”

She sighed.

“One business owner came into my office crying.”

Marcy shifted against her pillow.

Ellen continued.

“She and her husband owned a small restaurant. She said money had disappeared from one of their accounts. Thomas told them it was a bookkeeping mistake.”

“What happened?”

“They closed six months later.”

“Because of him?”

“I don’t know.”

That answer mattered.

We had all spent enough time assuming things.

I nodded.

“So we don’t know what Vale is doing. We only know Marcy saw him leaving Ray’s office.”

“Right.”

“And there are financial records connected to a company using Ray’s name.”

“Right.”

Marcy looked between us.

“What do we do?”

The old instinct rose immediately.

Go back to the gym.

Find Ray.

Demand answers.

But I remembered the promise I had made.

I looked at my daughter.

“What do you want to do?”