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Chapters (62)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Map
  5. Newspaper Extract
  6. Survive
  7. One Hundred Miles
  8. So Many and So Fast
  9. Start to Die
  10. Fish in a Barrel
  11. Because of the Blood
  12. Can’t be Real
  13. Waiting to Die
  14. Panic
  15. None of Them
  16. Trapped
  17. Video Game
  18. Like Her Life Depends on It
  19. Before He Sees Us
  20. It’s Your Lucky Day
  21. Just a Shell
  22. The World’s Best Reality Show
  23. How Long
  24. No Matter What Happens
  25. The One Who Decides
  26. What You Need to Do
  27. One Last Time
  28. The Biggest Secret Ever
  29. What They Want Me to Believe
  30. Who He Really Is
  31. People Like You
  32. I Believe She Is Saying
  33. Wake Up
  34. We Told You What Would Happen
  35. Slowly, Slowly
  36. Everything Is Under Control
  37. Come with Me
  38. The Last Thing They’d Expect
  39. They Can’t Shoot All of Us
  40. Go Down Swinging
  41. Not Running Away
  42. If You’re Going to Lie
  43. Every Rattle and Click
  44. Infinitesimal
  45. No Safe Place
  46. I Didn’t Know
  47. Straight to the Source
  48. Nothing but the Breathing
  49. Anything Other Than Killing
  50. You Honestly Believed
  51. Three Inches Away
  52. Not Anymore
  53. Refusing to Crack
  54. On the Trigger
  55. Over
  56. All Too Much
  57. Together, We Can Make a Difference
  58. A Note From the Author
  59. Other Mysteries by April Henry
  60. Honors for April Henry
  61. About the Author
  62. Newsletter Sign-up

What if they were seen? Miranda grabs a narrow white three-ring binder labeled 2017 INVOICES, lays it on its side, and shoves the narrow end under the door until it gets stuck. It’s like a doorstop. Now if anyone comes up here and tries the door, they won’t be able to shove it open. Cole nods approvingly.

Miranda feels a flush of pride. Then she realizes that if the killers get suspicious, they can just shoot through the door.

“So that’s an AK-47?” she whispers as she looks at the gun lying on the carpet next to Cole.

He shrugs one shoulder. “An AR-15.”

“What were you doing up here that you saw it?” Grace asks. The strain of the past couple of hours shows in her voice.

“Um, making deliveries. I work for an office-supply company.”

Javier nods. “I thought I’d seen you around before.”

“I spotted the rifle when I was trying to get out,” Cole says. “They must have staged this stuff up here for someone who didn’t come. Maybe someone who backed out.”

Miranda thinks of the ski mask she saw near the gun. “I don’t think this stuff was up here waiting for someone who didn’t come. I think someone had it all on and then decided to take off. He got rid of it along the way. First the gun, then the suicide vest, then the ski mask.”

“You could be right.” Cole straightens up. “Hey, maybe I can pretend to be him! The guy who took off. If I put on the vest and the ski mask and then walked up to that gate, I don’t think they’d be able to tell me apart from the real guy they’re looking for, at least not at first. If I keep my mouth shut, they might not know any better until it’s too late.” His mouth thins to a line. “And then I’ll do what I gotta do.”

Javier pulls his brows together, looking worried. “Or they’ll just kill you.”

Miranda is trying to figure out whether Cole’s idea will even work, when Grace says, “Only you won’t be pretending if you put on that vest and mask. Because you were wearing them in the first place. You’re one of them, aren’t you?”

In the stunned silence that follows, she launches herself at Cole. Her hands circle his throat.

“And you’re the one who killed my mom!”

You Honestly Believed

YOU HONESTLY BELIEVED

6:12 P.M.

Soaking wet, clutching the fire extinguisher to his chest, Parker waits for one of the killers to walk into Van Duyn’s workroom.

And waits.

And waits.