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“No, thank you, my partner followed in my truck. Logan, I want you to think hard about what’s going on with Jennifer. If she’s in danger, I can help. Have her call me. A man in your position could be at risk for kidnapping for ransom, extortion, any number of crimes.”
“I can’t imagine who would do anything like this. To me or Jennifer. She’s a good kid. Very smart. If—if I don’t hear from her, perhaps I can hire you to find her. I don’t know why she would be in danger—her job doesn’t entail state secrets or anything like that. But she was scared on the phone, and this thing tonight—what if that woman is looking for her? Lied to me, drugged me, thinking I know where she is?”
“All good questions. Call me, Logan. I want to help.”
It would put Jack in an ethical dilemma, since he’d been hired by Desert West, but right now he was more worried about Jennifer White’s well-being.
Jack let himself out. Margo was sitting in his truck in the driver’s seat. He didn’t ask her to move over; instead he opened the passenger door. He told her that Logan had told Brittney everything about yesterday. Margo sat there, quietly angry.
“And she told me yesterday he was going to be at the bar tonight,” Margo said. “She set him up.”
“So, we’re waiting for Brittney, I presume?”
“You know me well.”
“Rachel claimed Jennifer gave her Logan’s number.”
“Then how did Brittney know he would be there yesterday when Rachel didn’t call Logan until today? That bitch.”
“Rachel?”
“Her, too, but Brittney. I gave her Jennifer’s name, said there was nothing romantic between them that I could see. That’s when she told me about him coming to the bar tonight. I think she hired Rachel to drug him, so Rachel could make the moves and I could get the pictures.”
“You can’t prove it.”
“She’ll tell me,” Margo said with complete confidence. “I have no problem going to Logan Monroe and telling him everything if Brittney lied to me or I think she’s a threat to Logan.”
“I like the guy.” Jack said. “He seems genuine.”
She shrugged. Margo had always been more cynical than most of the family, but never to the degree she was now. She’d changed three years ago when their dad went to prison. It wasn’t just because their dad was in prison, it was because they hadn’t fought for him. Just because Cooper Angelhart said to stand down, didn’t mean they should stand down, Margo had said. And yet...they had. Because their dad asked.
It broke Margo’s heart that the family turned their back on her need for the truth.
“I found no evidence that he’s cheating on his wife,” Margo said. “I can’t figure out why she hired me to prove something that isn’t true.”
“Maybe she believes it,” Jack said, “and doesn’t want to accept that you couldn’t find anything.”
“Why? Really, wouldn’t you be relieved to know that your spouse is faithful? Maybe she had bad relationships, maybe someone is pushing at her, urging her on, I don’t know. But tonight was a setup, and that was all Brittney.”
“We can’t discount that Rachel is working for someone who is looking for Jennifer, and tried to get that information out of Monroe. It’s definitely a trick Miriam Endicott would pull.”
Margo shook her head. “Not Miriam’s style. She’s sneaky and will lie and her ethics are questionable, but she wouldn’t drug the guy.”
“Could she be willfully ignorant?”
“Like tell Rachel to get the info any way she can?” Margo nodded, conceding the point.
Jack looked at his phone. “Tess ID’d Rachel Roper.”
“Is that a real name?”
“According to Tess, Rachel Roper is a physical therapist by day, an escort by night.”
“A prostitute,” Margo said flatly.
“Works a girlfriend-experience gig. They’re not always prostitutes.”
Margo snorted. “So Brittney hired a girlfriend for her husband.”
