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"They're offering supplies to anyone who tells them where you are." The gaunt man spoke in a low, flat voice, his rifle hanging limp from his shoulder. "Water. Medicine. Protection."The warehouse had gone quiet. Emma looked around at the faces turned toward her, the mother with the dehydrated children, the old couple sharing a crust of bread, a boy no older than twelve with a tin cup in his hands. Nobody spoke. Then someone near the back said, very softly, "My daughter hasn't kept anything down in two days," and the room broke open."We can't just give her up.""Why not? She isn't ours.""They'll kill us all if we don't.""Adrian can't be trusted. Everyone knows that.""Then who can?"Emma stood with her back against a pallet, and she felt the argument ripple around her like heat off a road. She didn't blame them. Not truly. They weren't cruel people. They were frightened, with children who were thirsty, and a stranger had walked into their only shelter carrying a target on her back.
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The first volley took out the front windows. Glass sprayed across the floor in a bright, tinkling wave, and Emma flung herself behind the file cabinet with her arms over her head. Plaster fell from the ceiling in chunks. Somewhere in the front room, a chair went over."Away from the windows!" Rafe was already on his knees, dragging a metal table onto its side. His left arm hung stiff at his hip, and he gripped the rifle with his right hand and the crook of his elbow. "Everyone behind cover, now!""You can't shoot like that," Emma said."I can." His face was gray and shining with sweat. "Stay down.""Rafe...""I said stay down."Mira came skidding through the back door in a spray of dust. She'd slipped in minutes before the shooting started, still breathing hard from the ride, and her eyes were wild. "Two men at the rear. They're moving up the side wall. We've got maybe a minute.""Service corridor," Nathaniel said. "It connects to the building next door. It runs behind the records roo
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"Say it again." Emma crouched in front of the boy with her hands open on her knees, as if he were something that might bolt. "Slowly. Everything you heard.""I didn't catch all of it." He pressed his back against the wall. "The doctor said there were two signatures on the original report. One was her father's. The other belonged to whoever signed off on the extra tests.""I never signed anything," Catherine said at once. Her voice was too loud in the small room.Emma turned. "Nathaniel. Who could have signed for me?""Nobody." He shook his head. "Your father was careful about who had any say in your care. I can't think of a single person he'd have trusted with it.""Did he ever travel without you?" Beatrice asked Catherine. She sat against a pile of folded sheets, gray-faced, her eyes half closed."Sometimes. But I'd remember if someone had been given authority over her.""I remember something." Derek's voice cut in, hesitant. They all looked at him. He was standing near the door with
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The smoke came in through the broken window in a thin, oily gray line, and by the time Emma slung her pack over her shoulder, her eyes were streaming. Outside, someone was shouting that the fire had reached the second row of pumps. A car horn blared and kept blaring."Water," she said, mostly to herself. She crouched beside the bags and counted canteens by feel. Two full, one half, one nearly empty. "We've got two days if we're careful.""Three if we're not stupid," Nathaniel said."That's what I said."Rafe was already hauling a crate toward the door with one arm, his jaw set and his face gray under the sweat. She crossed the floor in four steps and put her hand flat against his chest."Stop.""I'm fine.""You're not. Sit down.""Emma...""Sit." Her voice cracked. "Please. Let me finish this."He looked at her for a long moment. Then he lowered the crate and sank onto an overturned bucket, and she saw him swallow whatever argument he'd been building. He caught her wrist as she turned
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Emma woke with her shirt stuck to her back and her mouth like paper. For a few seconds she lay still and listened. The generator had stopped sometime in the night, and the silence it left behind was thick as wool."Rafe?"He was already sitting up against the wall, one hand cradling his bandaged arm. The cloth had gone stiff and brown. When she took his wrist and turned it toward the gray light from the window, the skin around the edge was hot and puffy."It's swollen.""It's fine.""It isn't." She pressed two fingers near the wound, and he hissed. "It's infected, or it's starting to be. We need real supplies.""We have what we have.""Not for this."He didn't argue. That frightened her more than if he had.The air inside the storage building was stale and heavy, the battery backup drained to a single weak light. Nathaniel slept with his mouth open. Catherine sat upright against a sack of feed with her eyes closed and her lips pressed tight, and Emma couldn't tell if she was resting o
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Rafe crossed to the window in three quick strides and eased the dusty blind aside with one finger. Light fell in a thin gold bar across his face. Emma watched his jaw tighten as he counted."Three vehicles blocking the main gate," he said. "Armed men on the roofline. More along the fence.""Do you know that voice?" Emma asked, turning to Beatrice.Beatrice's eyes were glassy, but she nodded. "Victor Hale. He handles Adrian's private operations. The ones nobody writes down."The name hit Emma like a stone dropped in still water. She'd heard it in whispers and warnings over the last weeks, always as a shadow at the edge of someone else's story."He's dangerous," Catherine said, and her voice was steel. "He was part of the operation that forced me to disappear.""Sunset," Rafe muttered. "They want Beatrice and the document by sunset.""Then we give them neither.""I'm not negotiating." He let the blind drop. "We find another exit before they storm the place."Mira found it twenty minutes
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