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I try to glance around without hi The lot is jumbled and half-e stuffed into the back of the car

So I do the only thing I can think of I slip off one of my sneakers, the left one As I sit down in the open trunk, I flipmy knees up and hide the barefoot under me, so he won’t notice

“Lay down,” he says “I don’t want to hit your head”

I do as he says He sla me up in the darkness

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I’ the sneaker over and over in my hand

It’s Aida’s, I’m sure of it

How did she lose her shoe?

It’s been over an hour since Jack lost sight of her, but she hasn’t come back to the Jeep I’ve called her phone twenty tiht to voicemail

Dante and Nero pull up in a vintage Mustang They ju to close their doors after them

“Where was she?” Dante says at once

“At that restaurant over there,” I point to the patio on the far

side of the street “She wasa friend After they ate, she disappeared”

“What friend?” Dante asks