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“I don’t know anymore.”
“What happened?”
“Patrick found the ranch two days ago. Frank made me hide in the barn while he led Patrick away. I thought it worked.”
“But Patrick came back.”
“With another man.”
“Did he take Frank?”
“Yes.”
“Why does Frank know where the ledger is?”
Marisol looks toward the door.
“Because I gave it to Sally and she gave it to Frank.”
“Where did he hide it?”
Marisol reaches weakly for my hand.
“Frank put it in the lining of your bag.”
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“Frank put it in the lining of your bag.”
For one second, I don’t understand what Marisol means.
Then I look through the narrow window in the hospital-room door.
Sage stands beside Marisol’s bed.
Her backpack rests on the chair behind her.
The same backpack Navarro’s men covered in gasoline.
The one Eli carried out of a burning house.
The one Taylor scanned for a tracking device.
The one we brought more than six hundred miles to New Mexico.
“Sean.”
Will’s voice is low.
He heard her too.
Every instinct inside me turns cold.
I open the door.
Sage looks at me.
