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He tilted his head to one side. “Not at all. Rue will be going through with her testimony, no matter what. Isn’t that right, Rue?”

She pressed her lips together and nodded.

“We’ll make sure the passport is brought to you when it’s done,” I said.

“No need. I’ll get someone to pick it up, together with the two passports for the other girls. I assume they’ll be ready by then, too.”

“Yeah, they’ll be ready.”

They might be ready, but we’d make sure the information held on the chips inside the passports were mismatched. We’d deliberately muddled up the details so each of the girls’ images had been switched around. Wherever they ended up, they wouldn’t make it through passport control. I wished I could do the same for Rue’s passport, but if we screwed it up, we wouldn’t be able to move her either.

We could have kept Rue here for longer, and a part of me wanted to do so, but I also wanted Frankie and his men out of here. If they said they’d stay until the passport was done, they might also insist they watch us deleting all of Rue’s information off our computer. It wouldn’t take much for them to search both the computer and my pockets to find and delete the information. They couldn’t delete it, however, if we still needed it to make her passport.

“Okay, let’s get out of here.” Frankie nodded at Clay, who grabbed Rue by the arm and dragged her toward the door.

She threw a glance over her shoulder at us as she was hustled from the building.

It’ll be okay,I mouthed at her, hoping she understood what I was saying.

She gave me a tight smile in return before she was pulled out of view.

Ryan had switched from the crutches back to his wheelchair, and he wheeled himself to a halt beside me.

“I hope we know what we’re doing,” he said.

I placed my hand on his shoulder and squeezed. “Yeah, me, too.”

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