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Chapter 27
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2026-11-06 21:02:47
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Chapter 31 Nora"Peppermint," I said.Linda tilted her head at me, still smiling that new smile. "What?""Peppermint," I said again, louder, right into my own chest, where the little black button was sitting cold against my skin. "My grandma kept them in the cup holder of her Buick. Did you know that? The whole car smelled like peppermint. Six years in your garage, and it still did.""Sweetheart, what are you talking about?""Nothing," I said. "Just remembering her."Three minutes. Ruiz said three minutes. I didn't know if three minutes was a long time or a short time when you're standing in a dead man's living room with a murderer. I was about to find out.Linda stood up. Slowly. She was still holding her purse. Her eyes kept going to my hands, then my face, then my hands."Your grandma could do that too," she said. "Did you know? Did she tell you in her little book?""No.""Of course she didn't. She never told anybody." Linda laughed, soft. "But we knew. All of us Millers. In '77,
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Chapter 30Nora"Absolutely not," Ruiz said."I wasn't asking.""Mrs. Hale, I have done this job for nineteen years. Do you know how many hostage exchanges end with everybody walking away happy? I can count them on one hand. And I'd still have fingers left over to hold my coffee.""She said alone.""She also said she'd been making tea longer than you'd been drinking it," Ruiz said. "Do you believe everything she says?"We were standing in the parking lot of the sheriff's office with the sun going down behind the courthouse, and I was so tired I could barely see straight. I hadn't slept. I hadn't eaten anything except half a granola bar Maddie forced into my hand that morning. My hands had been cold since the night before and they weren't warming up."She's going to kill that girl," I said. "Ray said so. You heard him.""Ray's a felon who wants a deal.""He wants his grandbaby alive."Ruiz didn't answer that. She looked at the sky. She looked at her watch. She looked at me for a long t
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Chapter 29"Tessa!"I screamed it into the woods behind Warehouse 2 so loud my throat ripped. Nothing came back. Just the wind in the pine trees and the frost crunching under my bare feet and Maddie behind me with a flashlight in one hand and the bat in the other, crying so hard she could barely breathe."It's my fault," she kept saying. "It's my fault, it's my fault, I didn't look back, I had the kids, I didn't look back.""It's not your fault.""I should've looked back!""Maddie." I turned around and grabbed her by both arms. "Listen to me. Ray came stomping up my loading dock on purpose. He wanted us to hear him. He wanted us looking at the front door." My voice was shaking. "He was the noise. Linda was the hand. They planned this. It's not your fault. It's mine. I let Rhys leave and I forgot to put diesel in the generators and I put a pregnant girl in a building with a back door that faces the woods.""Stop it.""You stop it."We stood there in the dark in the frost, holding each
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Chapter 28Nora"Maddie," I said, very quietly into the dark. "Get the kids. Get Tessa. Go to the bunker. Now.""What about you?""Go."I heard her moving. Bare feet on the floor. Lily whispering, "Mommy, what's happening?" and Maddie whispering back, "We're playing a game, baby, the quiet game, the quietest one wins a whole bag of jerky," and Ben, half asleep, saying, "I want to win the jerky," way too loud, and Maddie saying, "Shh," and then the back door of the kitchen creaking open, and then nothing.The footsteps on the loading dock stopped.I stood in the middle of the office with Rhys's flashlight in one hand and nothing in the other, and my heart was going so hard I could feel it in my teeth. I thought about the radio. I thought about Ruiz. I thought about calling Rhys, three hundred miles away in a van, and him hearing me scream through the phone and not being able to do anything. I thought about my grandma's letter. Don't trust anybody who brings you something warm.Nobody o
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Chapter 27 Nora "Don't go," I said.It came out before I could stop it. Small and stupid, the way a kid says it at a school drop-off. Rhys was still standing at the bottom of the bunker ladder with his phone in his hand, and he looked at me like I'd hit him."Nora.""I know. I know you have to. I know it's your job. I know there's people up north who are going to get stuck in the snow and need somebody to pull them out." I put the pencil down on the notebook because my hand was shaking. "I just. Don't go."He didn't say anything. He came over and sat down on the bunk across from me, with the lamp between us, and put his elbows on his knees and looked at the floor."Why September twenty-second?" he said."Rhys...""You said you'd tell me when you were ready." He looked up. "I'm leaving Monday. I don't know when I'm coming back. If you're ever going to be ready, Nora, it has to be now."The water dripped from the pump. Somewhere above us, in Warehouse 2, Ben was snoring through the wa
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Chapter 26Nora "Don't say anything," Rhys said in my ear. "Nora. Look at me. Don't say one word. We walk back up the hill, we call Walter, and we let him handle it.""Mrs. Hale!" the reporter called. "Did you hurt Linda Hale? Is she on this property?""Nora," Rhys said."Is it true you threw boiling tea on her?""It was warm," I said.Rhys closed his eyes.The reporter's smile got even bigger. She pushed the microphone further through the chain-link, so far the foam on the end almost touched my nose. Her cameraman stepped closer. Behind them, the woman in the pink hat held her phone up over her head to get a better angle. One of the teenage boys was live streaming. I could hear him narrating: "Yo, she's talking, she's actually talking, chat, she said it was warm.""Mrs. Hale," the reporter said, "would you like to tell your side of the story?"I looked at her. I looked at the camera. I looked at all those phones pointing at me through my own fence, and I thought about the comments.
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