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Paxton’s door opened, and ically kneas already at the expo site Little John ca his head until he saw me "Oh thank God, Leah Are you headed to the site?"

"Yeah, I promised Penna I’d stop by"

"Good Paxton is a wreck out there, all ju Rebel’s bike broke, and it’s a hotback?"

He nodded "Yep, as soon as I can find Rebel’s pink bandana She says it’s lucky or so, and I didn’t see it in her room"

"Where did she say it was?" I asked I hadn’t seen it at our place, either

"In the purple backpack?" He looked at me for the answer

Luckily I had it "That backpack is Brooke’s I bet it’s in her room, not Penna’s Do you have her key, too?"

He nodded, and in a few seconds had her door open "Do you mind?"

"Not at all," I answered, hurrying in Her suite was seous I checked the closet, the bedroo back into the bedroo it out It caught on the bed fra fell from the frame Shit, I hoped I hadn’t broken the bed

It was a piece of folded paper, and I tossed it onto theup with the backpack I plopped the bag onto the bedspread and opened it, digging through until I found the pink bandana Penna loved As I zipped the pack up, feeling pretty darn victorious, the seal on the top of the paper next todocument to be kept in a bed frame, but it was none of my business After I stored the backpack, my morals wavered…then fell I snatched the paper off the bed and opened it

What the fuck?

It was the photography perascar

Brooke No way It wasn’t possible

Chills raced upat the base ofto ad hacked She had access to Paxton’s gear, to his fire box She’d been the one to push me on the ramp that day, and Morocco…

Damn it I’d heard her voice, but only Little John had been standing on the shore when I’d been pushed In the confusion, she could have called out from anywhere, and I wouldn’t have noticed

But ould she do it all when her own sister was a Renegade?

I looked up over the paper and Brooke’s nightstand cauy with one arm wrapped around her and the other braced on a motocross bike Nick

I didn’t have all the pieces, but I had enough

My feet flew as I ran fro the bandana and the permit "Where is Brooke?" I asked Little John as I almost fell into the hallway