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“We might.”

“We’re not leaving Hayley and Sage with one man.”

Arthur looks at me.

“We have four.”

“And our priority is protecting them.”

“I know.”

I look at the frozen image of Iron Ridge.

Navarro expects me to return.

He knows Sage left something behind.

Maybe he knows about the backpack.

Maybe he only knows the compound is the one place I will eventually go.

Either way, he set a trap.

And three of my men are driving straight toward it.

“Can you access any camera that isn’t connected to the property system?” I ask.

Taylor considers it.

“County traffic camera six miles east.”

“Bring it up.”

He does.

A two-lane highway appears.

For several seconds, nothing moves.

Then a dark pickup crosses the screen.

Kane’s vehicle.

Two minutes later, a white SUV follows.

Tinted windows.

No front license plate.

“Is that with them?” Hayley asks.

“No.”

Taylor enlarges the image.

Three men are visible through the windshield.

The passenger holds a phone to his ear.