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Nathan spun around, facing her, and then looked to Dr Green for any hint as to what she was talking about “What? We found it? Where?”

“Out front,” she said quickly “There’s caution tape all over it”

He shook his head “I didn’t see it, but there was a crowd of cop cars And a fire truck We thought it was another bo”

Dr Green ca against it “I o talk to the police at so for me Ms Johnson identified it as a possible vehicle that threw the s other than keeping people away until bomb squad can take a look at it After all the threats, and it being the sh alert And to keep people away in general until they settle what to do with it”

“Why are they so wrapped up in this s?” Nathan asked “It was a firework They wouldn’t have caution tape around it There’s no way she can confir the plate”

“As soon as that smoke bomb dropped, the police were there before it even really cleared,” Dr Green said He motioned to Nathan “It must have been just after you left In a way, you did us all a favor by getting out of there They checked those woods” He lowered his head slowly He re When he lifted his head again, his serious expression remained “But once the cops were there, Mr McCoy started throwing conspiracy theories about us at the police Ms Johnson spilled about being asked to be there by the principal for late night security since there wasn’t any She mentioned the delivery, but the police were more interested in the smoke bombs I think they think it’s connected to the recent slew of bomb threats on the school”

Nathan’s eyes widened, and his jaw dropped open “Sowhat about Mr McCoy? And Hendricks?”

“It’s all going down right now,” Dr Green said He stabbed a finger at the top of the folded table “Today The police are here waiting for Mr Hendricks to ask hiht and he wasn’t there Teachers and faculty are being pulled out of classes to be questioned Everyone’s talking about being followed, and Mr Hendricks asking the up now”

Coe, it was a wall of cards co down Everyone would tattle on everyone else

Nathan’s jaw reined this hat Mr Hendricks was going to allow to happen when it was time for him to leave

Was this it? He was booking out early? Did he call the cops on Dr Green initially and the smoke bomb saved their asses?

Was it because they pushed him so far yesterday? They underestimated his nerves and stability

He looked over at Sang and then back to Dr Green “Sowhat now?”

“I don’t know yet,” Dr Green said He lowered his voice to a whisper “I don’t knoe’ll contain this The whole point of being here was to get the money recovered before the police becaation and tied up forever as evidence by police”

He was right He rolled his head back “God damn it”

He felt a hand on his ar him “But this isn’t over the money,” she said She looked back to Dr Green “It’s about the s, and well it isn’t about thewe can do to keep it that way?”

Nathan thought of the options “If people corroborated with Ms Johnson about what Mr Hendricks with his strange behavior, they may not notice” He looked up at Dr Green “But we’ll have to figure out a way for us to stay on This won’t be over just because Hendricks is gone If he’s gone”

“That ht be e’re still here,” Dr Green said “Mr Blackbourne hasn’t told us to bail But I have to keep her out of it” HeHe sht now”

“I know,” she said

Her staying here to take a test with her sister made even oing to go see about the others Silas went over to check out as going on”

Sang backed up, putting her ar herself “Go find the?”

He left Sang with Dr Green His heart pounded, hiswith questions Did Volto’s chaos actually help them out or did it lead them all to disasterNorth being questioned about where he was last night and what happened Dr Green was going to be involved sooner or later Mr Blackbourne was probably inside the h the mess

He doubted they could get out of this one without a lot of favors

Where Everything Gets Tricky

The front of the school was croith students and faculty alike A police the activity and warding off anyone who came by While , very animated

Bomb threat? Did someone die? Nathan could feel the questions without even hearing what they were asking

Jay and Rocky stood together near the back of the crowd Silas ith the toward the students and beyond, to the front doors of the school

Nathan had to circle around to even see as going on near the front doors, finding police at the front, blocking off access to anyone going out without permission Occasionally, so out front It left lots of room for speculation

Nathan wasn’t sure why they were letting anyone out front at all