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I couldn’t be sure frouess, I would have said the person before us was a man The mention of my sister had my heart in my throat

“Where is she?” I asked

He didn’t answer me and when he turned to leave, I quickly said, “A butterfly She gave me a butterfly” When the man didn’t respond, I pulled the collar of my shirt down to reveal part of my tattoo “It looked like this”

There were several beats of silence before he said, “Come with me”

“No, tell me where she is!” I said sharply

But he ignored rab hied to get away froain I knee could quite possibly be walking into a trap, but there really was no choice I didn’t have time to try and convince Caleb to stay behind in the park, and I kneouldn’t have, anyway I kept his hand in ure across the street We walked for a good twentya littlewith every block that went by The figure ree withoff in my head that this could all be a trap, but I was too desperate to call the whole thing off

“Caleb—”

“Don’t,” Caleb said softly “I’hter

I groundAnd for all I kneere being watched and the second Caleb and I separated, so

I had no clue what part of the city ere in The figure kept scanning our surroundings, and e reached a brick building that looked like it could come down at any moment, he ducked into the alley next to it I forced myself to remain calm as we followed About halfway down the alley was a chain-link fence that had been cut open We followed the guy through the fence, then to the back of the building and through a back door The building was dark and shting as alked past the doors on the first floor The man led us to a set of stairs, which we took to the fourth floor of the six-story building

He stopped outside a door near the top of the stairs and knocked once, then used a key to open the door An older woman stood just inside the door and I stiffened when I watched the ive her some money The women ducked her head as she hurried past us and went up the stairs, rather than down them