WHICH MAN STAYS?
Coordinates attached.
A location pin dropped into the map below the text.
A second message followed:
I am creating a diversion. Do not stop. Do not look back.
Attached was a single, grainy photo. A dash-cam view. Three black Suburbans, like monstrous beetles, were turning off the main road onto our mountain track.
Fifteen minutes.
“Liam?” Maya’s voice was steady, but her eyes were wide.
I showed her the screen. She absorbed it in a second, her face going pale but set. The woman who had kissed me was gone, replaced by the mother, the fighter.