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The sound of a car’s engine beyond the aze shifted between the entrance and Si e’d do if the NSA had so us at that very moment From what I’d seen, there wasn’t another way out

When the car kept going, passing us by entirely, I released the breath I’d been holding

Si bottled up inside "We can’t stay here I have no idea how long it’ll be till they figure out where we are If we leave noe can be back at ht"

I nodded, but only because he was right about leaving The storage space wasn’t a good place to hide out

He went to the bay door and opened it, the noise echoing off the walls around us He checked both directions before co with you," I told Siine "I have a family here" I was surprised to hear ly I felt about the thought of abandoning thean "And someone else"

"Yeah Tyler Wahl I saw you with hirinned at uess I also expected you to say that" Shaking his head, he forced aze "I can’t e risk, Kyra, and, to be honest, I think it’s a bigout a new cell phone This one ay less fancy than the one he’d destroyed "It’s a burner, but it’ll do the job Plus it can’t be traced to anyone Only turn it on when you need to use it--ra to stop me

"I’ll drop you someplace safe," he went on "But you have to proo back ho for you, and no matter what they or anyone else says, they can’t be trusted Understand?"

I nodded numbly

"Be careful, and trust no one" He nodded toward the car door, indicating for me to close it "I’ll stay in town for the next twenty-four hours But I definitely think you should reconsider co with s about us, Kyra, thatabout the NSA Call me when you’re settled somewhere"

Siency called Safe Travels that he dropped aiven him minus five points for lack of creativity

But he’d earned at least fifty bonus points when he handedwith a fake ID that, when I sawI alsworth As cool as the whole false-identity thing would have seeht nohile I was still atte different from everyone else