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Emma stood at the window long after Beatrice stopped speaking. He died because he was trying to protect you from me. The sentence kept repeating, and each time she heard it, her hands felt colder."Don't," Rafe said, already guessing. "She's done this before. She'll say anything to pull you away from us.""Emma!" Beatrice called again. "I know you've been searching for the truth!""I'm going out.""Then I'm going with you."She pushed open the door, and the heat hit her like a wall. Rafe walked at her shoulder, rifle low. Beatrice waited by the sedan with her hands still raised, and her mouth tightened when she saw the two of them together."This is a family matter. You'll understand more if we talk privately.""No.""Emma...""Whatever you have to tell me, you can say it here." Her voice shook, and she let it. "I'm done following people around because they claim to know something about my life."Beatrice glanced at Rafe, then back. "You've gotten stubborn. Just like your father.""Th
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Emma held the phone until the screen dimmed, then tapped it awake again. Beatrice stood beside the doctor with the folder against her hip, calm as someone waiting in a hotel lobby."She's been in my life for years," Emma said. "She took Derek, she took my friends, she tried to take the farmhouse. I thought that was the worst of it.""Do you know what's in the folder?" Rafe asked Nathaniel."Medical records, maybe. Or papers from the original project." Nathaniel shook his head. "I can't be sure.""Why would she have anything of my father's?""Emma." Rafe's voice was gentle. "The photograph proves she was there. It doesn't prove she killed anyone.""I know." She swallowed. "I just can't make myself believe she was there for a good reason."Derek was still waiting for her answer. She agreed to meet him again, this time with Rafe and Nathaniel on either side of her, and he arrived at the same fuel station an hour later with the same tired face."Adrian's moved most of his important record
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"Tell me everything." Emma's voice came out low and flat, and she was surprised by how steady it sounded. "Every word. Start from the beginning."Derek rubbed the back of his neck. The wind pushed dust across the concrete between them. "I was told the payment was for special treatment. An experimental course, something your father's regular doctors couldn't offer.""And you believed that.""I didn't ask." He glanced at her, then away. "Adrian promised me a large reward for delivering it. I took the envelope and handed it over. That was all.""You never wondered what was in it?""I didn't want to know.""Did you know it was connected to my father's death?""No." He said it too quickly. "Not then. I swear I didn't."She held his gaze until he looked at his shoes. "Did you ever feel guilty?""I did what I had to do.""That isn't what I asked.""It's what I've got." His jaw worked. "I wasn't responsible for what happened afterward, Emma. I was a courier.""You chose money over a man's lif
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Emma kept staring at the screen long after Rafe handed her the phone. The pixels blurred and sharpened as her eyes swam, but the two figures on the step never changed. Adrian, calm and upright. Derek beside him, hands in his pockets, shoulders loose, like a man waiting for a cab."I thought he'd run," she said. "After the lodge. After what he said to me.""He didn't run." Rafe's voice was flat. "He went home.""He's been with Adrian this whole time." Her throat tightened. "Every time I thought he was hiding, he was reporting.""Probably for much longer than we realized," Nathaniel said. He sat on the floor with his back against a pillar, one hand pressed to his ribs. "Derek wasn't a pawn Adrian picked up last year. He's been inside this operation for a decade.""He gave Adrian my movements." Rafe crouched beside her. "Where we were headed, who we were with. That's how they found the lodge, and the settlement, and the bank.""I know." She handed the phone back. Her fingers had gone col
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Nathaniel pinched the screen to enlarge the photograph. The page was creased and torn at one corner, but enough of the typed lines survived to read. "This is a transfer of ownership," he said slowly. "A major portion of the infrastructure project, signed over to you.""Legally?""Legally. Before your father died." He tilted the phone. "There's a condition, though. You have to activate it in person. Present the original document, verify your identity. Nobody else can do it for you."Emma stared at the line. The room around her seemed to go very quiet. "So Adrian can't take it without me.""Not unless he forces you to cooperate.""Which is why he keeps trying." Rafe's voice was dark. "And why he lost his temper when you said no.""What does the project actually control?" Emma asked.Nathaniel scrolled through the photos until he reached a list. "Water storage facilities. Underground pipelines. Emergency power equipment. And a large tract of land around a reservoir, a big one, east of th
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The first gunshots came from the road, three sharp cracks in a row, and the whole yard seemed to inhale at once."Back from the entrance!" Rafe's voice cut over the shouting. "Everyone away from the gate, move!"Emma grabbed the nearest child by the wrist and pulled. Behind her, boots hammered the gravel, and a woman was screaming for someone named Danny. Nathaniel had Margaret by the elbow and was shoving folders into a canvas bag with his free hand, his bandage already slipping."Take the vehicles!" Emma called. "Children and the injured first. Go!"People ran in every direction. A man dragged a mattress toward the truck for no reason Emma could see. A girl kept calling for her shoes. The settlement was coming apart in front of her, and she could do nothing except keep moving.Then she heard the sound of splitting plastic.She turned. One of Adrian's men stood at the back of the school beside the water storage, an axe in his hand. He swung again, and the big blue container cracked fr
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