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The captured man watches me from the ground.

His smile is gone.

“We saved it,” I tell him.

He looks toward the burning house.

“Navarro will find another way.”

“Where is he?”

The man says nothing.

I walk toward him.

Arthur doesn’t stop me this time.

I crouch until we are eye level.

“You followed Kane, Trent, and Holt into Nevada. You broke into my property. You threatened my daughter and set fire to my home.”

The man’s eyes flicker.

“You have one chance to give me something useful before federal agents take you.”

“He isn’t in Nevada.”

“Where did he go?”

“I don’t know.”

“Wrong answer.”

“He crossed the border before sunrise.”

“Which border?”

“I don’t know.”

I grip his jacket.

“What does he want with Sage?”

“You already know.”

“He paid for her.”

The man smiles again.

“He paid for something else too.”

My blood turns cold.

“What?”

“He thinks she knows where it is.”

“Where what is?”