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Addy’s letters.

My photographs.

Everything I carried from Tennessee.

My bedroom door opens.

I grab the lamp beside the bed.

Sean stops in the doorway.

He looks at the lamp.

Then at me.

“Do we need to find you something that isn’t a weapon?”

“No.”

I lower it.

“Who’s here?”

“Kane, Trent, and Holt.”

“The other Protectors?”

“Yes.”

“Why are they here?”

Sean doesn’t answer immediately.

Something happened.

I see it in his face.

I look past him.

Hayley stands in the hallway.

Will is beside her.

Both are watching me.

“What happened?” I ask.

Sean enters the room.

“Navarro sent men to Iron Ridge.”

Cold slips beneath my skin.

“Were they waiting for us?”

“We don’t know.”

“What did they do?”