{"id":14946,"date":"2026-09-20T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=14946"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:05:45","slug":"part-9-principal-warren-took-mia-into-the-locked-gym-but-kaylee-realized-the-message-was-designed-to-separate-her-from-every-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=14946","title":{"rendered":"PART 9 \u2013 Principal Warren Took Mia Into the Locked Gym, but Kaylee Realized the Message Was Designed to Separate Her From Every Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hallway remained empty for less than three seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Then Kaylee came running behind me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her voice stopped me before I reached the gym corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel caught up next. Dana and Ortiz were immediately behind her, followed by the detective who had been examining the encrypted files.<\/p>\n<p>I held up Principal Warren\u2019s badge.<\/p>\n<p>BRING KAYLEE TO THE GYM. ALONE.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee stared at the words.<\/p>\n<p>Her breathing came fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is?\u201d Ortiz asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wouldn\u2019t write that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrincipal Warren?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe always writes my whole name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer sounded absurdly small against everything happening around us.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz looked at the badge again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Warren calls me Kaylee Whitman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven after I told her Mercer was my real name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said records mattered more than feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the writing again.<\/p>\n<p>BRING KAYLEE.<\/p>\n<p>Not Kaylee Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>Not Kaylee Mercer.<\/p>\n<p>Someone wanted us to believe Principal Warren had written it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who has Mia?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>A noise came from the gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>One metallic bang.<\/p>\n<p>Then another.<\/p>\n<p>I moved again.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz blocked me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe note says alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person who wrote it also kidnapped your daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She turned to the resource officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManual override?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He tried his radio.<\/p>\n<p>Static.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outage has the magnetic doors in emergency mode. We can open individual sections from the mechanical cabinet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaintenance room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dana stayed with Kaylee and Rachel while Ortiz sent two officers to restore access.<\/p>\n<p>I crouched in front of Kaylee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Principal Warren ever take you somewhere without another adult?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnywhere else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gym storage room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said I stole money from the school store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in the storage room?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe asked about Tasha.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel knelt beside us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she ask?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether Tasha still had the blue folder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat blue folder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe got angry because I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she hurt you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer was immediate.<\/p>\n<p>Then Kaylee corrected herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe squeezed my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She put her fingers along her jaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s hands curled into fists.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the dark hallway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas anyone else there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Fox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she stop Warren?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe watched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The power outage suddenly felt less like improvisation.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody knew the school.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody knew its security system.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody knew how Kaylee reacted to certain names and rooms.<\/p>\n<p>A loud mechanical clunk traveled through the corridor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEast doors released,\u201d the resource officer called.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency lights continued glowing, but the gym wing was accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz drew her weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou stay behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did not argue.<\/p>\n<p>We moved.<\/p>\n<p>The double doors to the gym stood closed.<\/p>\n<p>No window.<\/p>\n<p>No sound.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz positioned officers on either side.<\/p>\n<p>She counted silently.<\/p>\n<p>Three.<\/p>\n<p>Two.<\/p>\n<p>One.<\/p>\n<p>The doors opened.<\/p>\n<p>The gym was empty.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball hoops hung above polished wood.<\/p>\n<p>Bleachers remained folded against the walls.<\/p>\n<p>At center court stood a single chair.<\/p>\n<p>Mia\u2019s coat was draped over it.<\/p>\n<p>My legs nearly gave out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMia!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Then Kaylee whispered, \u201cWrong room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storage room has another door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gym equipment room opened behind the bleachers, but according to Kaylee, a second exit connected to the old locker corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Officers moved fast.<\/p>\n<p>We followed at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the storage room, basketballs rolled across the floor as somebody entered from the opposite side.<\/p>\n<p>The resource officer shouted.<\/p>\n<p>A figure ran.<\/p>\n<p>Dark coat.<\/p>\n<p>Gray hood.<\/p>\n<p>Not Principal Warren.<\/p>\n<p>The person disappeared through the far door.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz pursued with two officers.<\/p>\n<p>I saw something behind a stack of wrestling mats.<\/p>\n<p>Shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Small white sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I pulled the mats aside.<\/p>\n<p>She was sitting against the wall with tape across her mouth and plastic ties around her wrists.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped beside her.<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes filled immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the tape carefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said you wouldn\u2019t find me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel cut the wrist ties with a safety blade from the first-aid kit.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee crawled beside Mia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho took you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mia looked toward the far door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he look like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wore a hat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mia rubbed her wrists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked where Kaylee was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee went pale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kept saying she remembered too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz returned alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLost him near the loading dock. He had a vehicle waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrincipal Warren?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot unless she changed height and build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mia shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz crouched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you see his face?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould you recognize him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe say his name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mia hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018The Warren problem is handled.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz stood.<\/p>\n<p>The principal was no longer merely a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>She might be in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Police searched her office.<\/p>\n<p>Empty.<\/p>\n<p>Her car remained in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Her purse lay beneath her desk.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were keys, prescription glasses, wallet, and phone.<\/p>\n<p>No sign she had planned to flee.<\/p>\n<p>A smear of blood marked the edge of her file cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Crime-scene technicians found strands of hair.<\/p>\n<p>There had been a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Warren had been taken before Mia.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker had then used her badge to lure Kaylee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe saw the green-room video,\u201d Rachel said.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Warren was the woman in that recording, whoever took her may believe she can identify what happened to that boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee stared at the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows I saw too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat man?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one with Greg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every head turned.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee\u2019s eyes squeezed shut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Greg carried the boy out, somebody opened the back door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat wasn&#39;t visible on the recording.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen how do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I was behind the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went silent.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee had said she witnessed the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Now we understood why.<\/p>\n<p>There had been a narrow maintenance space behind the blue-room corridor.<\/p>\n<p>She had hidden there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you see?\u201d Ortiz asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man in a brown coat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFace?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA square one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Tasha know him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe called him sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>Not Voss.<\/p>\n<p>Tasha did not call Voss sir.<\/p>\n<p>She called him Malcolm on the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else had authority.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz returned to the encrypted archive.<\/p>\n<p>Payments were searched for unidentified recipients.<\/p>\n<p>One account received irregular transfers over thirteen years.<\/p>\n<p>Recipient initials:<\/p>\n<p>R.H.<\/p>\n<p>Amounts increased after every transfer involving a blue-circle child.<\/p>\n<p>The account terminated three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>It belonged to Raymond Hale.<\/p>\n<p>The name meant nothing to me.<\/p>\n<p>It meant something to Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>She stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat judge?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one who terminated my custody rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody moved.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s voice became thinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe signed the order placing Kaylee permanently with Greg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Records were pulled.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Hale had been a juvenile and family-court judge for twenty-two years.<\/p>\n<p>Retired recently.<\/p>\n<p>His name appeared on dozens of placement decisions connected to Voss\u2019s agency.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Fox had submitted reports to him.<\/p>\n<p>Tasha had testified in his courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Marlene\u2019s foster certifications had survived complaints because Hale rejected challenges as insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>And Greg\u2019s custody order had been signed by him.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee whispered, \u201cSquare ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A photograph of Hale appeared on-screen.<\/p>\n<p>At a charity dinner.<\/p>\n<p>His right hand rested on a podium.<\/p>\n<p>The ring was gold.<\/p>\n<p>Square face.<\/p>\n<p>Dark center.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee backed away from the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator enlarged another photograph from twenty years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Younger Hale stood beside Malcolm Voss at Blue Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>The caption described a partnership supporting \u201chard-to-place children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was there the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz immediately ordered protection around Hale\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>The response came back fast.<\/p>\n<p>His residence was empty.<\/p>\n<p>Staff said he had not been seen in two days.<\/p>\n<p>His phone was off.<\/p>\n<p>Retirement cabin unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Then the forensic team recovered deleted calendar entries from Principal Warren\u2019s computer.<\/p>\n<p>One appointment had been scheduled that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>4:30 P.M.<\/p>\n<p>R. HALE.<\/p>\n<p>Location:<\/p>\n<p>OLD COURTHOUSE ARCHIVE.<\/p>\n<p>Warren had planned to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Her personal notes gave a clue.<\/p>\n<p>IF CARD SURFACES, HALE WILL CLEAN HOUSE.<\/p>\n<p>I read the sentence twice.<\/p>\n<p>She had known the memory card could expose him.<\/p>\n<p>Another note:<\/p>\n<p>ANGELA THINKS SHE CAN BARGAIN. SHE CAN\u2019T.<\/p>\n<p>And one written only yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>KAYLEE REMEMBERS GREEN. IF SHE TALKS, HALE MOVES EARLY.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoves what?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knew.<\/p>\n<p>Then the school phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>Not a cell.<\/p>\n<p>The landline in Principal Warren\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz answered.<\/p>\n<p>She did not speak for several seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Then she put it on speaker.<\/p>\n<p>A man&#39;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>Calm.<\/p>\n<p>Older.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel stiffened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaymond?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee grabbed her hand.<\/p>\n<p>The man chuckled softly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always were difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Principal Warren?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafe enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Angela?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat depends on Angela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Brianna?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked at Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz gestured for her to continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaylee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stepped forward.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s eyes flashed toward me.<\/p>\n<p>Hale continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe belongs in this matter whether you accept it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is eight years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knows something she doesn\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen leave her alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice sharpened slightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour daughter has inherited your talent for creating complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n<p>Not fear.<\/p>\n<p>Recognition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said that to me before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale was silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the courthouse,\u201d Rachel continued. \u201cYou said I was creating complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew who I was before my case ever reached you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale ended the call.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz checked the trace.<\/p>\n<p>Blocked through internet routing.<\/p>\n<p>No location.<\/p>\n<p>But Hale had made one mistake.<\/p>\n<p>He had called the school\u2019s private administrative line.<\/p>\n<p>A number not publicly listed.<\/p>\n<p>Only district staff and a small number of former board members had it.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators checked Hale\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>He had served on the district foundation.<\/p>\n<p>With Malcolm Voss.<\/p>\n<p>With Nathan Fox.<\/p>\n<p>With Principal Warren.<\/p>\n<p>The network had not merely infiltrated child services.<\/p>\n<p>It had surrounded the children afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Courts.<\/p>\n<p>Foster homes.<\/p>\n<p>Counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Every institution that might catch the truth contained someone willing to bend it.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee stood beside me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to tell her he would.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I said, \u201cThen we stop making it easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee pointed to the encrypted files.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe thinks I remember the boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember what the boy said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The distinction mattered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee\u2019s lips trembled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told Tasha he had a mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat his name wasn\u2019t Owen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Tasha call him Owen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat name did he say was real?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee stared directly at Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went completely silent.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz checked records.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Raymond Hale had one son.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, Daniel Hale had died at age six in a boating accident.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>There had been no body recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel whispered, \u201cAnother fake death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Kaylee shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boy was little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The green-shirt video was only four years old.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Hale would have been in his thirties.<\/p>\n<p>Unless Daniel was not Raymond Hale\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the name had been reused.<\/p>\n<p>Then Ortiz found something in the encrypted files.<\/p>\n<p>A birth record.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Raymond Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Age five at disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Mother:<\/p>\n<p>Emily Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Father:<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n<p>Reported missing five years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Never found.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Hale had not been cleaning up a stranger\u2019s child.<\/p>\n<p>He had been hiding the disappearance of his own great-nephew.<\/p>\n<p>And Kaylee had seen Greg carry that child out.<\/p>\n<p>A new call came through dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>Officers searching the old courthouse archive had found Principal Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Tied to a chair.<\/p>\n<p>She was injured but conscious.<\/p>\n<p>She kept repeating one thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz asked which lake.<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u2019s answer came back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot Arlen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She coughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked at the old photograph of Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Her face lost color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another Blue Harbor property there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to one of Lucas\u2019s unsent letters.<\/p>\n<p>The last line had seemed meaningless before.<\/p>\n<p>IF I EVER DISAPPEAR AGAIN, FIND THE BLACK WATER.<\/p>\n<p>Police began moving.<\/p>\n<p>Then Warren gave them one more message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHale has Angela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Brianna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he thinks Kaylee is coming to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen let him think that.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=14947\">Click here to continue reading: PART 10: Kaylee Agreed to Help Police Trap Raymond Hale, but Blackwater Lake Exposed a Secret Greg Had Protected Since Before Her Birth<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hallway remained empty for less than three seconds. Then Kaylee came running behind me. \u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d Her voice stopped me before I reached the gym corridor. Rachel caught up next. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insightdrama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}