“How long ago was that?”
“Maybe ten, fifteen minutes before you showed up?”
“Okay. Thanks for the info. My guess is you won’t be seeing him again.”
“No shit.”
Jace chuckled, then returned to the car. “He left ten minutes or so ago,” he told Steve as he started the car.
“Right after you tried to call him.”
“Yeah. I’d hazard a guess that he thought I wanted to warn him they’d found out he was at the shelter, which is my fault. I should have been more specific with my text.”
“So try again.”
“I will, once we’re away from here, on the off chance it was something else that set him off.”
“Like he saw someone he knew?”
Jace nodded, pulling into late-night traffic. “If so, it had to have been through a window, which means they could have seen him if he wasn’t careful.”
“How would they kn
