Agent Park asked me not to tell anyone about Evan Mercer.<\/p>\n
That included Marcus.<\/p>\n
Denise.<\/p>\n
Laura.<\/p>\n
Anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an active missing-person investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think he\u2019s dead?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t assume.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked tired enough that I stopped pressing.<\/p>\n
The photograph stayed in my mind anyway.<\/p>\n
Thin face.<\/p>\n
Wire-framed glasses.<\/p>\n
White Lexus.<\/p>\n
A man standing beside the Mercedes before it came to my shop.<\/p>\n
Calvin had watched him remove something.<\/p>\n
Then Mercer vanished.<\/p>\n
That afternoon I repaired an alternator on a seventeen-year-old Honda while trying not to wonder whether I had unknowingly stored evidence connected to a missing man.<\/p>\n
It is difficult to torque bolts accurately when your brain keeps imagining worst cases.<\/p>\n
Marcus noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve checked that bracket three times.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFour.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo something\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
He walked away.<\/p>\n
I appreciated him not asking again.<\/p>\n
Around four, Laura\u2019s attorney called Denise.<\/p>\n
Laura wanted to provide information to federal investigators.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s already cooperating,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does she know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe claims she met Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The name hit me harder because Park had said not to discuss it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMorning after the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
My entire body went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the house?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she tell you what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says Brent brought him.\u201d<\/p>\n
That matched Calvin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Mercer do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExamined the Mercedes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says he kept asking about a device.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat device?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat behind my desk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy tell us now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she saw Mercer\u2019s picture on the news.\u201d<\/p>\n
I opened a browser.<\/p>\n
His disappearance had just become public.<\/p>\n
MISSING FINANCIAL CONSULTANT LAST SEEN SEPTEMBER 8.<\/p>\n
There was his face.<\/p>\n
Same glasses.<\/p>\n
Same white Lexus.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Park know Laura is talking?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo why tell me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Laura\u2019s lawyer wants us aware before the next custody hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
Every truth now arrived attached to legal strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does Laura remember?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer was frightened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf Brent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says of Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he find the device?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura says no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he leave?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did she last see him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAround ten that morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer\u2019s official last confirmed sighting was shortly after noon.<\/p>\n
Two hours remained.<\/p>\n
The next day, police searched North Ridge\u2019s storage yards.<\/p>\n
Television helicopters circled overhead.<\/p>\n
Workers stood behind yellow tape.<\/p>\n
Rows of impounded and repossessed vehicles filled acres of gravel.<\/p>\n
I watched coverage from the garage office.<\/p>\n
Marcus leaned beside me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are they looking for?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was true enough.<\/p>\n
By evening investigators had towed away five vehicles.<\/p>\n
One was the white Lexus.<\/p>\n
Evan Mercer\u2019s.<\/p>\n
It had been hidden inside a fenced overflow lot under a temporary auction number.<\/p>\n
Marcus stared at the television.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would his car be there?\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew he was missing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew his name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou couldn\u2019t tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus nodded.<\/p>\n
No resentment.<\/p>\n
Just understanding.<\/p>\n
The Lexus changed the investigation immediately.<\/p>\n
Police sealed the entire North Ridge property.<\/p>\n
Calvin was questioned again.<\/p>\n
He denied putting Mercer\u2019s car there.<\/p>\n
Records showed the Lexus entered the lot at 2:46 a.m. on September ninth.<\/p>\n
Roughly forty hours after the Mercedes crash.<\/p>\n
A truck followed it in.<\/p>\n
Only the truck left.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho drove the Lexus?\u201d I asked Ramirez.<\/p>\n
\u201cCamera angle doesn\u2019t show.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlood?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNone visible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSigns of struggle?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStill processing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPhone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
I leaned against the workbench.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalvin runs the yard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t know how a missing man\u2019s car got hidden there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is his position.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n
She gave me a look.<\/p>\n
Right.<\/p>\n
Belief did not matter.<\/p>\n
Two days later, investigators found a memory card tucked beneath the Lexus driver seat.<\/p>\n
That was when the case changed again.<\/p>\n
The card contained audio recordings.<\/p>\n
Mercer had been recording conversations too.<\/p>\n
Not constantly.<\/p>\n
Selectively.<\/p>\n
He apparently trusted nobody in the Harlow organization.<\/p>\n
Agent Park invited me downtown again because one recording included my name.<\/p>\n
I did not like the sound of that.<\/p>\n
Denise came.<\/p>\n
Park closed the conference-room door.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer recorded a meeting with Brent on September eighth at approximately nine thirty in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the lake house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Brent say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst he wanted Mercer to locate a flash drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one I found.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Brent look himself?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
I frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cRick never said Brent was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMinor shoulder injury. Likely airbag related.\u201d<\/p>\n
That explained nothing important.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Mercer say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said the drive wasn\u2019t in the obvious places.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrent told him Craig Morrison could not be allowed to examine the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did he say my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you had repaired Harlow-connected vehicles before.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he knew Laura planned to bring it to me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why not stop her?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park exchanged a glance with the other agent.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to Mercer, Laura had already called you.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remembered.<\/p>\n
She arrived without warning.<\/p>\n
Maybe she had discussed it earlier with someone.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrent wanted Mercer to remove all financial evidence before the tow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe failed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what did he remove?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn audio recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Denise.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat recorder?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA small digital device hidden beneath the passenger seat.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrent\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Park leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer said Samuel Voss planted it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The whistleblower accountant.<\/p>\n
My mind raced.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoss bugged the Mercedes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrent used the vehicle for private meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Voss was collecting evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Mercer removed the recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was on it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer took it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now he\u2019s missing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room felt colder.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Brent know Voss planted it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot before the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen how did he know to search?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas suspected after the party.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVoss said something during the argument that suggested he had recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of the twenty thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
The attempted payoff.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas wanted every copy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer found one recorder. Brent hid the flash drive. Voss had his own records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then Mercer disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Mercer say about me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park read from the transcript.<\/p>\n
Mercer warned Brent that bringing the Mercedes to my garage was reckless.<\/p>\n
Brent replied that Laura could control me.<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exact words?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
She read.<\/p>\n
\u201cCraig does whatever Laura says if she waves the kids in his face.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the table.<\/p>\n
There are insults that hurt because they are false.<\/p>\n
Others hurt because they describe who you have been.<\/p>\n
For two years Brent had understood the mechanism perfectly.<\/p>\n
Threaten my weekends.<\/p>\n
Ask for anything.<\/p>\n
I had called it protecting my sons.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it was.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it was fear disguised as sacrifice.<\/p>\n
Denise touched my sleeve.<\/p>\n
Park continued.<\/p>\n
Mercer responded that frightened people eventually stop being predictable.<\/p>\n
Brent laughed.<\/p>\n
Then said I would never risk losing Rick and Noah.<\/p>\n
I almost smiled.<\/p>\n
He had been right.<\/p>\n
Until risking silence became worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to Mercer after he left the lake house?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have another recording.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEleven forty-eight that morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho with?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
My breathing slowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlay it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I can summarize.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas demanded the recorder.<\/p>\n
Mercer refused.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he wanted protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Thomas do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThreatened his career.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s all?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the recorded conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened after?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer left.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen he disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was his last known contact?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA call to his sister at twelve nineteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat he was leaving town for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Park opened a folder.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt twelve thirty-eight, his Lexus entered a gas station.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVideo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Mercer driving?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Relief came strangely.<\/p>\n
He was alive after Thomas threatened him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stiffened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park slid a still photograph across the table.<\/p>\n
Passenger seat.<\/p>\n
A woman.<\/p>\n
Blonde hair.<\/p>\n
Large sunglasses.<\/p>\n
Even through grainy security video I recognized her.<\/p>\n
Laura.<\/p>\n
I stared at the image.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was she doing with Mercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe initially denied it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen shown the photograph, she changed her statement.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does she say now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Mercer called her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe believed she might help him get away from Brent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would he believe that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she had thrown the payoff envelope into the ditch.\u201d<\/p>\n
That detail would have shown Mercer she was not completely loyal to Brent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Mercer want?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA ride?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat information?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to know where you lived.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stood so quickly my chair struck the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t think he intended to hurt you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSit down.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stayed standing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Laura tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe claims nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe lies whenever lying buys her another five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denise said quietly, \u201cCraig.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat.<\/p>\n
Park continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer believed you might be the safest person to hold the recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew you were independent of the Harlow network. He also knew Laura could reach you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he wanted Laura to give it to me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened at the gas station?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey talked for approximately six minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura left in a rideshare.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDrove away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have traffic-camera footage for another hour.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recorder was still missing.<\/p>\n
Mercer was still missing.<\/p>\n
But if he believed I was the safest person to hold the evidence, he might have tried to get it to me another way.<\/p>\n
I thought back through the days after the crash.<\/p>\n
Mail.<\/p>\n
Deliveries.<\/p>\n
Cars.<\/p>\n
Customers.<\/p>\n
Nothing stood out.<\/p>\n
Then something did.<\/p>\n
A week before Laura brought the Mercedes, a padded envelope had arrived at the garage.<\/p>\n
No return address.<\/p>\n
Inside had been a cheap USB cable and nothing else.<\/p>\n
I assumed a supplier had sent the wrong item.<\/p>\n
I threw the envelope into my desk.<\/p>\n
The cable remained in a drawer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n
Park looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI got something in the mail.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout a week after the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA cable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUSB.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
We drove there immediately.<\/p>\n
The cable still sat where I remembered.<\/p>\n
Kyle photographed it.<\/p>\n
Nothing unusual visually.<\/p>\n
Then he examined the connector.<\/p>\n
The plastic casing separated.<\/p>\n
Inside was a microSD card.<\/p>\n
I stared at it.<\/p>\n
Mercer had found a way to send evidence without making the package look important.<\/p>\n
Park bagged the card.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if this is the recorder copy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt may be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you read it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hours later, she called.<\/p>\n
Her voice was different.<\/p>\n
Controlled.<\/p>\n
Too controlled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe card contains recordings from Voss\u2019s device.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDozens.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFraud?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Mercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne file appears to have been added after he removed the recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
I gripped the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat file?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer recorded himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said if anything happened to him, Thomas Harlow and someone named Raymond Pike should be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n
I frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond Pike?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The surname hit me.<\/p>\n
Gerald Pike.<\/p>\n
Brent\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n
\u201cRelated?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrothers.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is Raymond?\u201d<\/p>\n
Park answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cCounty deputy sheriff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Someone with access to crash reports.<\/p>\n
Someone who could know whether a hit-and-run investigation was moving.<\/p>\n
Someone who could help make evidence disappear.<\/p>\n
And someone I had never once considered because the uniform itself had made him invisible.<\/p>\n
Agent Park asked me not to tell anyone about Evan Mercer. That included Marcus. Denise. Laura. Anyone. \u201cIt\u2019s an active missing-person investigation.\u201d \u201cDo you think he\u2019s dead?\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t assume.\u201d … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama-sory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}