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He had a point, and with her fear of heights, she wasn’t sure she could go through with it anyway Wrapping the towel around herself, she inched in the direction of the roohty roar

“Keiko!”

Mace had arrived

Her eyes stung with tears of relief, but she couldn’t just let hi hiuns”

It was too late He hadn’t heard her Or he’d ignored her and decided to play hero instead Either way, he caht into the s

“Don’t shoot him,” Keiko screamed

But no guns were aimed at Mace Instead, he took in the situation with a sweep of his eyes

“Are you okay?” he asked her

She sed hard, glancing between him and the teaan to fill her stomach Mace didn’t show any of the reactions she would have expected of hi held at gunpoint by strangers In fact, the ret Cold, raw dread started to flow through her veins,her heart beat faster

“Mace?” she said “What’s going on here?”

A flash of…so…flared in his eyes before he covered it with a wince Had it been pain? Guilt? None of it made any sense

“I’m sorry,” he said to her “I tried to stop them before this happened If you’d just stayed in the foyer where I put you…” He trailed off before turning to Eyepatch “I ht I’d put it in one Otherwise I would have told you there’s been a change of plans”

The words felt like tiny pins pricking at her heart as theirpenetrated And then, the world tilted and the air becaerously thin

He knew her kidnappers

He was one of them