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“Well, what do you think?” he asked

“So far, I’ll take it No rats in sight, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t around”

“I have no doubt We’ll stay here a couple of weeks I’ll work on figuring out Maddox’s code to break, and once I get this bounty off ood,” Landon said

“Code?” Tulip asked, picking up a container of Chinese food Back home, the Chinese she used to enjoy came in little clea

r plastic containers She normally loved a fried rice and plain curry

“Landon believes if he can figure out the code to Maddox’s bounty, take the et the hunters off his back We believe his brothers are doing the sa but as yet, we haven’t been able to crack the code In the beginning, hunters were on our case all the time Then slowly, they started to diminish”

“It’s my brothers,” he said

“How do you know it’s them?”

“They’re offering out extra bounty for other missions It’s the only way to keep the, some won’t be lured by the other offers, but it’s a shot”

“Your family’s that rich?”

“They will do whatever it takes to keep me safe”

“Even though you killed your father”

“I did what I had to do Maddox needed killing I was the only one with the guts enough to do it”

Tulip shrugged She’d never e In her world, soot what she wanted No In her world, she got used to lying low, avoiding, and running

Eating the noodles, she listened to Jade talk about the peri a low profile Landon had been gone a while because he couldn’t go to the local superet them some stuff