“You built an empire, but you forgot that empires need walls,” he said.

“I built those walls.”

“I kept the secrets that would have torn this family apart years ago.”

“You kept them to use them against us,” I said.

01:22.

The timer beeped again.

The sound was a physical blow to my chest.

“The bomb, Caleb,” I said.

“How do we stop it?”

“You don’t,” Caleb said.

“The code won’t work.”

“I changed the master bypass yesterday.”

Daniel walked over to the metal box on the wall, his flashlight beam shaking.

“He’s right, Adrian,” Daniel said.

“The keypad is locked out.”

“It’s asking for a physical authorization,” Daniel said.

“A biometric keycard.”

I looked at Caleb.

“Where is it?” I asked.

“It’s not on me,” Caleb said.

“Marcus searched me.”

“He knows I don’t have it.”

Marcus nodded slowly.

“He’s clean, Adrian,” Marcus said.

“Nothing in his pockets but a pocketknife and a lighter.”

“Then where is the card?” I demanded.

Caleb smiled, a slow, ugly movement of his lips.

“It’s somewhere on the property,” Caleb said.

“In a place you walk past every single day.”