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He probably kneas the one who’d broken that glass tube in the central lab

As ht’ve been right when he’d said the ent Truet his hands on ainst me too?

From the front seat, Jett went back to work on his laptop as I watched the lights outside blur past

"Get anything yet?" Simon asked Jett It was clumsy, his atte, "So far, all their files are encrypted, but nothing I didn’t expect" I guessed that must’ve been what Willow had in her backpack when Simon and I had escaped the ducts below the central lab--hard drives or disks, password-protected files she’d stolen--but I was only half listening, unable to quit thinking about the other stuff--the aliens and the hybrids and genetic er to the spot on my shin where there was a bruise hidden beneath my jeans It was the same bruise that had been there since I’d returned, and it had been there when I’d been taken too--five whole years ago It hadn’t changed at all during that entire time

And it never would, thanks to whatever had been done to us Thanks to what Simon tried to tell me was this alien DNA I was supposed to have in me now

"Their security is Grade A," Jett told Si the hell out back here "I can crack it, but I’ll need heavier equipment to do it"

The SUV lurched to a hard stop, and I sat up, looking toward Natty "What happened? Is so?"

Natty leaned forward and shook her head frohostly shadows of the car’s interior "I don’t know Nothing, er seat, Jett strained to see around the traffic "Whatever it is, it hway, too, on either side of us All lanes wereat a snail’s pace "Where are we?"

"Just north of Chehalis," Jett answered, closing out of the locked files for theinto one of the USB ports "If it doesn’t clear up soon, on’t cross into Oregon for another two, maybe three, hours" I watched as he pulled up a web browser

Simon raised an eyebroard the coive the Daylighters any way to track us"

Jett patted his laptop like it was a dog "This baby’s clean as a whistle And I paid cash for the hotspot burner If they track us, it won’t be because of my Wi-Fi"

"Still," Sih news links and Depart Sione back at the Tacoreeing to go in the first place I one--for Tyler--and I knew he said we’d gone because he wanted to knohat the No-Suchers, this Daylight Division, was hiding in there, but was that really all there was to it? Or was it possible he felt guilty, too, that Tyler ht have been there in the first place?