er of Brooklyn. The corrugated metal door rumbled shut behind it, plunging the spa
ended a rickety iron staircase, her expression grim. She didn't say a wor
er nails digging into her own palms. She gasped for
small faces pale. They stood silently, watching
bench and poured a generous amount oone gulp. The burn in her throat was a welcome distr
her voice firm, the decision made in a
airports will be the first place he
knelt down, her hands cupping Aiden's face, forcing him to meet
Now. Use the encrypted line. Tell him we ne
his laptop, propped it on the hood of the car, and his fingers began t
coat. "Mommy, why are we running?" she aske
hand patting Kennedy's arm. "I
fierce hug, burying her face in her soft hair. "It's a game, sweetie,
rstand. "Is... is the bad man who
her eyes, a painful, childish
physical blow. Her body went rigid. She closed her eyes, t
ay. She opened a hidden safe in the wall and pulled
"The license plate is burned. You c
top. "Uncle Silas has a jet waiting. It takes
solve. She zipped up her children's jackets,
Anjelica took the wheel, her driving aggressive and sure as she weaved
ic thumping of Kennedy's own heart. She held her children's hands, her
K. The airport glowed in the distance
exit when Anjelica suddenly swore und
e lights of police cars. But these weren't police. Several black SUVs, the same kind
armored vehicles of the Cle
ere tr
aid, her voice eerily cal
iden's face, Ava's hands.
her knuckles white o
ze fixed on the roadblock. "I can't be with t
open the
carefully constructed composure finally shatte
small fingers from her coat, and pressed a hard,
more than anythin
darkness of the highway shoulder, a lone
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