“What the hell does that mean?” Lena whispers.
I look at my watch. We’ve been inside for 31 minutes.
But patrol found nothing. No bodies. No blood. No struggle. Just six cell phones laid in a perfect hexagon in the center of the floor, each one still playing a voicemail that had no source and no timestamp.
I hear Lena’s breathing change. She’s a twenty-year veteran. She’s seen cartel work, familicides, a man who kept his wife’s teeth in a tackle box. But this—this absence—is getting to her.
