I pulled my phone out of my back pocket, where I’d stashed it while we were running. There’d been little point in calling Kane to let him know we were coming, and he lived close enough to the school that asking him to come get us would have taken longer than simply running. When we discovered he wasn’t home, I decided it would be safest to get to my house. We cut through Kane’s backyard and the yard behind that, only making it two houses down before the cars converged on us. I’d been too preoccupied to even think of my phone. “You hear me, Valentina? It’s time to go home and let Reyna do the same.” Dad continued with his speech, but I wasn’t listening. His text was the real message. Dad: Give Reyna your watch and tell her to keep it on at all times. We will get her back, but this is not th
