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Adam tried his cell phone once on the way down, but, as he’d expected, there was no reception. He was making good time—too good, by the mud stains on the knees and seat of his pants—but he still felt he was losing a race against the clock. Had Harlan really expected him to get through to someone on the outside, or had he just sent Adam up the mountain on a quixotic mission to get him out of the way? And out of the way of what?
Teddy could be coming back. But why wouldn’t Harlan want Adam there to meet Teddy? Unless it was because Teddy was successful in… whatever it was the man was trying to accomplish when he’d left them behind. Harlan had intimated it involved Virgil, but Adam hadn’t felt a peep from his father since they’d tried to save Aaron Schofield.
And what about Aaron? Adam
