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Lynn looked at him. “Not here.”

“Then you don’t get the package.”

Her gaze flicked around the garage. “We don’t have much time.”

“No kidding.”

“Voss expects confirmation within ten minutes.”

“Then start talking.”

Lynn’s mouth tightened. “You don’t understand. If I don’t send him proof that I have it, he’ll know.”

“He already knows,” Colin said.

Lynn went still.

There.That little freeze. Not surprise, exactly.

Fear.

Maren saw it too. “You know he sent Dekker.”

Lynn closed her eyes for one brief second. When she opened them, they were wet.

“I suspected.”

Colin’s blood went cold.

“You suspected,” Maren repeated.

Lynn looked at her. “I couldn’t change the location. If I pushed back, Voss would know I’d flipped.”

“So you brought us here anyway,” Maren said.

“Maren,” Colin said quietly.

Stay with me.

Maren drew a breath, but her gaze stayed on Lynn. “My sister died here.”

“I know.”

“Ray died because of you.”

Lynn flinched.

Good.

“I know that too,” Lynn said.

“I don’t forgive you.”

Lynn’s face crumpled just a fraction before she pulled it back together. “I’m not asking you to.”

“Good. Because if you were, I’d…I’dpunchyou.”

Despite everything, Colin almost smiled.