Everybody looks at her.
She lifts the coffee mug slowly, but her hands still shake slightly.
“We stop running.”
Silence settles across the room instantly.
Gabriel studies her carefully.
“Hannah—”
“He’s still taking children. He’s still playing Doctor Frankstein.”
The words hit like a punch.
Because suddenly Avery’s death feels close again.
The tunnel.
The red room.
Forty-three children are still there.
No.
Maybe more by now.
Hannah sets the mug down carefully.
“I remembered something else in the shower.”
My pulse tightens immediately.
Overlap episode.
Gabriel notices too.
“What?”
Hannah looks pale suddenly.
“The list wasn’t just names.”
The room stills.
“There were locations.”
Russ straightens instantly.
“What kind of locations?”
“Transfer routes.” Hannah presses fingers against her temple. “Safehouses. Underground facilities. Shipping ports.”
Oh hell yes.
Now we’re talking.
Gabriel looks at her sharply.
