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“Okay? She’s her mother Just call her and tell her to come back to the compound where it’s safe,” I say

“No, I mean she kidnapped her,” Beckett says

Liesel and I trade stares “She’s her mother She can’t kidnap her”

“Well, she did She said she was just taking Rose downstairs to get ice creaone, and she left a note”

“What does the note say?”

“To give her the treasure or else she’ll kill Rose,” Beckett says

I glance at Liesel, whose eyes are spinning Yet again, she knows so me

“Where is Atlas?” I ask

“Maxwell took hih”

“Fuck”

I throw the phone down in frustration, watching it shatter into a billion pieces

Liesel sinks to the floor

“They’re all working together,” Liesel says suddenly

“What?”

She co together Corbin, Maxwell, and Phoenix Corbin played the bad guy, Maxwell our friend, and Phoenix the loving mother”