Page 318 of Rangers Last Promise

Wolf nods. “Doc likes that.”

I turn away from them.

“Colin?”

“What?”

“I’m coming back.”

“You promised.”

“I know.”

“And Mara?”

“Yes?”

“You still owe me something.”

I close my eyes.

“I love you.”

The station goes completely silent.

Every Ranger is staring at me.

Sheriff Tate looks like he’s trying not to smile.

Hampton presses both hands against the bars.

“This is beautiful.”

I point toward him.

“Not one word.”

Doc laughs softly through the phone.

“I love you too.”

I look at Arthur Harlan in handcuffs.

The Colonel who erased twenty-three men.

The man who ordered my brother’s death.

The man who believed he was too powerful to face justice.

Tonight, he failed.

Grant’s truth survived.

And so did we.

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DOC