Page 56 of Rangers Mountain Rescue

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Havoc

Idon’t like waiting.

Especially not when I know the answers are sitting ten feet away on a flash drive.

The house is quiet.

Too quiet after what happened tonight.

Aspen finally got Dylan back to sleep.

Grandpa is out cold in his room.

Buddy is stretched across the doorway like a furry security system.

Ace and Blaze are outside rotating watch.

Wolf’s on comms.

That leaves me… and the truth.

I sit at the kitchen table.

Laptop open.

Flash drive in.

Saint patched in remotely.

“You ready?” he asks through the speaker.

“Do it.”

Keys click.

Code scrolls across the screen.

Fast.

Clean.

Military-level encryption.

Saint whistles low.

“Tank didn’t want this found.”

“No,” I say.

“He didn’t.”

There’s a pause.

Then—

“I’m in.”

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