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And then this new car will take me out a different exit and hopefully do so without anyone knowing I’m in it.

The doubt seeps in. It seems too easy, too cliché to anyone who has ever watched a police drama. If Kaleo’s team is smart enough to evade the authorities for as long as they did, it’s hard for me to believe they wouldn’t figure out what is happening right now.

“Miss?” the driver prompts.

I take a deep breath. It’s now or never.

“Thank you,” I murmur as I slide out of the town car and a female agent with a similar build and hair color takes my place.

I climb into the SUV, and just as I’m shutting the door, the opposing one opens. The strangled scream I hear is my own as Rangi stands there and looks at me.

He’s here for me.

He’d do anything for Kaleo.

Anything.

“Hello, Tessa.”

I slowly reach my hand for the door handle, my mind spinning, trying to process. How? What happened? Did he hurt the other agents trying to protect me?

He slides in the seat beside me and hits the back of the front seat two times to tell the driver to take off.

“Relax,” he says. “The plan’s still in place.”

“What plan? How—”

“Who did you think the inside man was? The one who slipped you the phone? The one who protected you even when you didn’t know you were in danger?” He reaches his hand out. “Special Agent Tom Halston. Nice to meet you.”

I stare at him. A man my husband trusted more than anyone else. Talk about karma. The two people Kaleo trusted the most are the ones who betrayed him. I thought Rangi would be the one to try and kill me.

And now I’m meant to trust him?

Talk about being fucked up.

But he’s here, and the agents I can now see milling around the outside of the SUV are alive and well.

I sure as hell didn’t see this one coming, but that doesn’t mean I don’t double-check Agent Halston’s hands to make sure he’s not holding a weapon in one of them.

He’s not.

My shock seeps into awareness.

“I don’t understand,” I barely whisper as I shake his hand.

“Look at those clear skies, will you?” he says as we exit the garage. “It’s a good day for me to take revenge on you for betraying my best friend—or so the story will go.”

“Are we ready, sir?” the radio at his waist chirps.

Agent Halston looks at me and grins. “No time like the present to be run off the road and killed in a fiery crash, is there?”

CHAPTER FORTY

Tennyson

“Now that your first official Redemption Falls Founder’s Day is underway, is it all you thought it would be?” I ask Crew as I slide a glance his way and chuckle.

“I think that I’ll be in trouble no matter how I answer that.”