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the base, all of the Eclipse formula, some of the Takers who’d held him captive … and himself.
    My heart throbbed with an empty ache in my chest, and I pushed the thought away.
    Living with a target on my back was never comfortable, but it was also the only thing I’d ever known. Dad had taught me to be smart and survive this way. He’d wanted Parker to have something different, a more normal life. I would do my best to make sure Parker still had it, even now.
    As I passed through the garage, I grabbed a shovel and some rope.
    â€œPlanning to bury people, are we?” Finn asked in a cheery voice from somewhere behind me.
    â€œCould be … or to dig them up.”
    I guess they could tell I wasn’t in a joking mood, because no one commented again.
    I grunted as I hefted everything up and placed it in the passenger side of the white van we’d stolen from the Takers’ base. When I’d learned that Mason, one of the prisoners we’d rescued, hadn’t destroyed the van like we’d planned, I asked him to give it back. It came in handy for projects when my motorcycle just wasn’t going to cut it.
    I glanced around the yard to see if Chloe had come out here. I’d wanted to at least give her a quick wave before I left, but she was nowhere in sight. She must’ve disappeared again; not all that surprising. If there was anything I’d learned about her over the past month, it was that she had a tendency to come and go whenever and wherever she pleased, with no warning.
    In that respect, I guessed she was a lot like me.
    Parker was leaning against the driver’s side of the van when I walked around. I wrapped one arm around his shoulder in a quick hug that also helped move him somewhat out of the way. “Take care of yourself. They know who you are, but they’ll probably be afraid to retaliate for everything when they’re so desperate to get Eclipse back. They probably think we’re the only people who might have a clue how to make it.”
    â€œYou’re the only one who might have a clue.” Parker pulled back and frowned. “That formula Dad gave you looks like gibberish to me.”
    â€œFirst, they don’t know you don’t understand it, and please don’t tell them.” I leveled my gaze at him, forcing myself not to react to his eyes. “Second, without the last three ingredients, the formula isn’t useful to anyone—myself included.”
    â€œRight.” Parker didn’t move from where he stood, blocking me from closing the door and leaving. “Are you sure you can’t wait another day or that I can’t come with you? I still have so many questions, and you promised to tell me more about Da—”
    â€œI’m sure.” I nudged him out of the way with my arm and closed the door. “And we’ll have time for questions and answers later … after I’ve finished this.”
    I stretched my neck to one side, forcing myself not to dwell on the hurt my brother was struggling to keep from showing on his face. This conversation was complicated, and I was itching to get moving. I was already past tired. It had been too long since I’d slept in a Builder’s dreams. Addie, Finn’s sister, was the only Builder I knew in this town, and since Parker and Addie had gotten their relationship problems worked out, it seemed weird to step in. Not to mention that she was busy being his Builder.
    The more time I spent with Addie—awake or asleep—the more I had to remind myself that she was unavailable. I’d avoided her dreams except when things were getting really bad. And although her friend Mia was no Builder, her self-hypnosis-induced dreams had helped me more than I’d expected. But still, they weren’t the same as a Builder’s dreams.
    And figuring out Dad’s formula required me to be alert and rested. That meant one thing for certain—after I