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“No.”

“You said this house was secure.”

“It is because nobody knows it exists.”

I rise from the chair.

“I’m not sitting here while investigators try to identify girls Daniel used to deceive me.”

“You aren’t leaving.”

“That isn’t your decision.”

“It is while Navarro is hunting Sage.”

“He wants Sage. Not me.”

“He already took you once.”

“Greg took me.”

“On Navarro’s orders.”

“Because I was trying to find my daughter.”

“And now you found her.”

The words stop both of us.

Sean’s voice lowers.

“Hayley, Sage woke up in a strange house at three in the morning because she was afraid to sleep. She asked me whether her bedroom door locked.”

Pain cuts through me.

“She needs you here.”

I look toward the hallway.

Sage is sleeping down there.

My daughter.

“She also needs to know the men who hurt her can’t do this to another girl.”

“They won’t.”

“You can’t promise that.”

“No,” Sean says. “But I can promise we’ll help stop them without leading Navarro to Sage.”

We.

Not the police.

Not someone else.

Iron Ridge.