abet
d alarm, and as I rushed back to the coffee table
ng code, while the live ticker at the bottom of the TV news announced that
ilk tie loose and grinding his back molars as his chief agent and ri
hundred percent, Zane broke free from Lily's grip, lunged at the key
his small knuckles, my
roke gives them a more pr
m of my trench coat, tears brimming in her wide eyes
rd from the wall, forced a hard shutdown, and pried t
om hardware was ripped apart, bi
bowl of water inside the microwave, and hit high power; within secon
's tech team had already narrowed the si
unpacked clothes back into the suitcas
front of the twins, I
ht now. Not a single
backpack over his shoulders, and took
k, tucked my folding scalpel inside my waistban
e our heads as I scanned the empty corrido
amiliar weightlessness made my stomach lurch, dragging
flagged down a rideshare car, threw the bags into the
et in Flushing, I glanced through the rain-streaked rear
rypted number, and my best friend Ciji Holder answered on the first
. "Griffin's people are on our tail in Fl
ed on the other end before hanging
section, I checked my watch, every ticking secon
ointing out the side window, his gray-blu
roof SUVs bearing the Griffin Security insigni
ed halfway down, revealing right-hand man, Owe
children down onto the floorboard
the armored convoy in terror,
piss off the mo
y voice cracking like a whip. "Turn right int
tires screeching on the wet pavement as we barely scraped
ind us while I held the twins tight,
ams flared to life in the darkness, and a massive black Range Rov
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