"B-big trouble?" Mara parroted from the other line. Okay, granted that she hadn't answered or replied to Keegan's many calls and texts, but she didn't want her focus to be sidetracked. Keegan would surely convince her to stay back and waited some more when he had enough.

"Yes, you ought to be proud of yourself that he has found you. He's in the same building as you."

"He is?" Okay, now she sounded stupid for repeating his words. Mara had checked in the motel under her and Cody's aliases and she had been walking around town hoping to get noticed by her stepdad. It was an easy plan and she...