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She nods, puts her arht

Bear walks up to us “Everyone okay?”

I nod “How did you—? I mean”

He shrugs “I called in backup”

“Fuck, lad you did”

Seconds later, Knox is running into the construction site “She went out the balcony, John”

The worried look on his face hasback “It’s okay, she’s fine We’re all fine” I look over at Bear “Can we get outta here?”

He looks over at the sergeant in charge, and she gives Bear a nod Obviously he’s already talked to her about how us being here never happened We never want the credit The less people know about us, the better

Bear looks at us “Yeah, let’s get outta here”

Bear and Knox drive his truck to the airport, and I drive our rental car She’s quiet the whole way, and already I’ I should talk to her about it, but I can’t Not yet I’ from the fact that she was almost in the line of fire

She pops up next to me “Ethan?”

“Ethan was dropped off at a locked rehab by Knox and Bear thisout the part where she’ll see him when I think he deserves to see her

She ets out of the car as soon as I park I drop the keys off at the rental car desk and start walking through the airport

“This is us,” she says, pointing at the airline sign we rode here on

I grab her hand and pull her withus home”

She pulls o”