“We would appreciate you not saying anything about this,” Baker said.

Harvey eyed his sidearm. “Can you tell us what ‘this’ is, Sergeant?”

“You didn’t tell them?” Baker asked Ed, who shook his head.

“The country is under attack,” he told Harvey, “and this is part of the battlefield.”

Baker was gone when a familiar blue sedan rolled past the remaining truck and up to the store. “Alex!” Amy yelped, and ran outside.

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