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"Where are you now?"

"In the car with Alice."

"Can you come to my office?"

"It might take me a while, but sure. What's up? Why the urgency?"

"It's about the cash you gave me. It set off all kinds of alarms at the FBI. Can you come in right now? It's serious. Big time serious."

"I got your point when you said 'alarms’."

"Can you bring the rest of the cash?"

"I don't have it with me."

"Can you get it? Actually, just tell me where you are and I'll come pick you up. We need that cash immediately."

"What's going on?"

"I ran a few serial numbers from the bank notes and they matched those of a bank robbery in Milwaukee. It happened almost three years ago but was never solved. My bosses are breathing down my neck, asking how I got hold of some of the missing cash, especially since none of the bills look used or tampered with and they're still in the bank's wrapper."

My heart skipped a beat. "Milwaukee?"

"Yeah. Not exactly next door. Where are you? I'll come now to pick you up."

"Alice, stop the car!"

The car screeched to a stop and the kids squealed, then applauded and demanded she do it again. "I have to go," I told her. "Maddox, I'm sending you my location. Come and get me now. I think I know everything!"

Chapter Twenty-One

I waved when I saw Maddox's SUV and he pulled over to where I insisted Alice drop me at the side of the road. Even though I hopped out of her car, she refused to leave me alone, "just in case a calamity befell me" and remained in the car with the kids making faces at me. I should have sat and waited in her car but I was too excited about my revelations.

"I've worked it all out," I told Maddox as I climbed into his car and buckled the seatbelt. I waved to Alice and she drove off, Ben and Rachel both waving to me from the backseat. "Go!" I shouted as I pointed ahead.

Maddox didn't move.

"Hurry up! Time is of the essence!" I waved my forefinger at the road.

"Seriously?"

"Pedal to the metal!"

"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what you know."

"Everything," I said smugly, my mind racing. "I've worked it all out. The bank heist. Sophie. The money. Mackleton's murder. Charlie. Everything."

"Are you telling me a woman in a coma pulled off... hang on. Which bank heist?" Maddox frowned.

I gave him a quizzical look. "What are you talking about? Sophie didn't pull off either heist."

"What areyoutalking about?" he asked.

"We have to get to the agency. We need everyone. I'll tell you everything there."

"Fine," muttered Maddox, shifting the gear into drive.

I shot off a message to Solomon saying I had it all worked out and he should meet us at the agency. Then I sent the same message to Garrett and Jord. I contemplated sending it to Lily too so she wouldn't feel left out but figured there would be too many questions. I'd make it up to her later.

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