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“You keep saying that like it helps.”

“She won’t be alone,” Hayley says.

I turn toward her.

Hayley lifts her chin.

“Neither will I.”

The fear inside me sharpens.

For eighteen years, I had no idea I had a daughter.

For eighteen years, I believed Hayley left because she didn’t love me enough to stay.

Now I have both of them in front of me.

And men are hunting them.

“You stay beside me,” I tell Hayley.

Something moves through her eyes.

“I will.”

I look at Sage.

“You stay with Will.”

“Why Will?”

“Because he’s less likely to let you talk him into something reckless.”

Arthur coughs.

Trent looks at the ceiling.

Holt suddenly becomes interested in the wall.

Will folds his arms.

“She’s not talking me into anything.”

Sage smiles through her tears.

“We’ll see.”

“No,” I say.

Everyone looks at me.

“There will be no seeing.”

Kane reaches for the door.

“Plane can be ready in forty minutes.”

“Taylor, send the ranch footage and everything we know about the SUV to Vega. Trent, contact the New Mexico sheriff. Holt, find out where they’re taking Marisol and Cole.”