They worked through the night. Agent Hayes arrived with a team of federal agents, but by the time they got there, Diego and his men were long gone. Maria was taken into protective custody, but she’d already received a text message – a photo of her sister, bound and gagged in a room with no windows. The message read: Twelve hours.The shelter’s security systems showed that Diego’s men had already been inside, copying files from every computer. By dawn, every survivor they’d helped had received a message, leave town, or face the consequences. By noon, eight of the twelve residents had vanished, leaving only the ones too sick and weak to move.Isabella called to say her landlord had already signed the building over to Diego’s associate. When she’d tried to remove the books – many of them donated by survivors, she’d found they’d all been destroyed, their pages soaked in gasoline and left to rot on the floor.“They knew exactly which ones to target,” she said, her voice breaking over the
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