somehow, it didn''t show up on any of the vi''s security footage.


    The scene abruptly cut off outside the Minton family''s ce, where someone had messed with the security cameras. It was only about a mile away that a security camera caught a quick glimpse of a ck sedan. This car seemed to be heading towards the vi area, yet "I haven''t seen this car around here before," Jonah frowned. "It doesn''t seem like it belongs to anyone from this neighborhood."


    "Let''s run the license te on this car," Sophie suggested.


    "Got it."


    Jonah got right to it, jotting down the license te number and kicking off the investigation. In less than ten minutes, they had some results.


    "The car''s license te is registered to a Joseph."N?velDrama.Org: owner of this content.


    The mention of ''Joseph'' made Sophie''s face fall. Joseph? How could it be him? Sophie hadn''t seen his body herself, but plenty of people had witnessed Joseph being kicked out, and the Burke family had even set up a funeral for him. How could he be back? Remembering a call from James, who had warned her that things weren''t over, Sophie''s heart skipped a beat. She quickly pulled out her phone and dialed James.


    James picked up almost immediately.


    "What''s up?" James''s steady voice came through the line.


    "Odie''s gone missing, and the license te traces back to Joseph. Have you seen this car?" Sophie sent him a photo at the same time.


    James was quiet for a moment before responding, "I haven''t seen that car."


    "Is Joseph really dead?"


    "Yeah, he''s dead," James said. "I was the one who stabbed him. There''s no way he''s still alive."


    "Then someone''s ying games," Sophie said, her eyes narrowing. She thought things had finally settled down, but it seemed like someone was still pulling the strings behind the scenes.


    "Don''t worry too much. You''ve got the Aldridge family''s intelwork, right? Dig deeper. If I remember right, they''ve got info on everyone in the Devonport area. Figuring out who die might be involved with or who might have taken him shouldn''t be too hard."


    "Thanks a lot."


    Sophie hung up and was about to call Harold when Colby came upstairs and said, "No need to keep looking; he left on his own."


    "On his own?" Sophie asked, puzzled. "What do you mean?"


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    Colby ced a joker card on the table. The ck jester on the card was dancing. "This was on the bedroom desk at the Minton ce. It''s a message he left."


    "What does it mean?"


    "When we were on missions, we used codes tomunicate. Odie was great at gambling and always had a deck of cards with him. The joker means danger is near." Colby exined further, "He must have left by himself. Leaving the card was his way of letting us know that someone was after him."


    Worried about Odie, Jonah asked, "Why wouldn''t the boss take me with him?"


    "He probably didn''t take you because the other person only wanted to meet with him alone."