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“Where is Ramirez?”
“Searching for Patrick.”
“Then you and Cole are the only people who enter.”
Cruz folds her arms.
“You give orders in Nevada, Campbell.”
“Today I give them wherever my daughter is standing.”
Sage makes a small sound.
I look at her.
She is trying not to smile.
Sheriff Cruz notices too.
“You think that’s funny?” she asks.
“A little.”
Cruz looks back at me.
“I’m beginning to understand your problem.”
“She isn’t my problem.”
“You are.”
Will coughs into his hand.
Taylor turns toward the hallway.
Hayley appears behind the sheriff.
“What did I miss?”
“Frank hid the ledger inside Sage’s backpack,” I tell her.
Her gaze drops to the bag.
“The backpack Navarro’s men tried to burn?”
“Yes.”
“The one that was inside your house?”
“Yes.”
“The one you carried onto the plane?”
“Yes.”
“And brought into a hospital?”
I close my eyes.
