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Nobody touches it again.

Will opens the hospital-room door.

“Taylor.”

Footsteps move quickly through the hall.

Taylor appears with Kane behind him.

“What happened?” Taylor asks.

“The ledger may be inside Sage’s backpack.”

Both men look at the bag.

Kane’s expression hardens.

“We searched it.”

“For a tracker,” I say. “Not for something sewn into the lining.”

Taylor crouches but doesn’t touch the canvas.

“Hospital isn’t the place to open it.”

“I agree.”

Sage looks at me.

“That bag has been beside Marisol’s bed for ten minutes.”

“And we’re moving it.”

“What if Patrick followed us?”

“He doesn’t know we found the ledger.”

“He knows Frank hid it somewhere.”

Kane steps into the room.

“He also knows Frank helped you.”

Marisol’s face loses what little color remains.

“You have to find him.”

“We will,” I tell her.

“Patrick will kill him.”

“Where did Patrick take him?”

“I don’t know. Frank made me hide in the barn. I heard them arguing outside.”

“What did they say?”

“Patrick wanted the ledger. Frank told him he burned it.”