Of the frightened voice begging for his mother.
I swallowed my panic.
“Then find him.”
Rebecca looked at the investigators.
“We will.”
But it wasn’t until the following morning that we discovered why Miles had been so desperate to search my house.
While examining the guest bedroom, investigators found a locked suitcase beneath his bed.
Inside were forged identification documents, nearly sixty thousand dollars in cash, and an old photograph.
The photograph showed Miles standing beside Daniel Rourke.
Between them was a boy.
He appeared to be about thirteen.
He had dark hair.
A narrow face.
And a familiar crooked smile.
My hands began shaking.
Because the boy looked exactly like Benjamin.
And written on the back of the photograph were three words.
Eli Carter — 2022.
CHAPTER 9 — THE BOY WITH ANOTHER NAME
I stared at the photograph until my vision blurred.
Benjamin had been twelve when he disappeared.
The boy in the photograph looked older.
