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below, cars and buses that looked like the metal toys Dan used to leave scattered on the floor when he was five.
    “You’re scaring me!” Dan suddenly said. He shuddered, both hands in his pockets. “I-I’m afraid . . . of heights! NO! NO!” he screamed.
    “Shut up, kid!”
    Dan moved in a flash. His hand came out of his pocket and he threw ball bearings on the floor between them.
    Amy didn’t need to be prompted. She knew what Dan was planning without one word being spoken. She and Dan ran in the opposite direction from the wildly rolling balls. They heard the curses of the guards as they windmilled their arms, trying to keep their balance and run at the same time. Both of them crashed to the floor.
    Amy and Dan knew they had only seconds before the guards were after them again. They pushed through the thick plastic sheet and took off.
    “This way,” Dan said, darting down a hallway.
    Amy followed without question. She knew that her brother’s photographic memory had stored the layout of the floor in his head. He was probably leading them back to the elevator they’d taken to get up here, in hopes that Arabella had finally corralled the reporters. There would be safety in a crowd.
    They heard the rustle of the plastic screen, then the
thump-thump
of running footsteps. The guards would be on them at any moment.
    Then Amy heard the
whirr
of the elevator. Dan had already spurted toward the sound.
    “There they are! Get them!” They heard the guttural voices behind them, but it would waste time to turn. They only had seconds now.
    They burst out of the corridor just in time to see the top half of the reporters in the elevator as it descended past the floor.
    “Our only chance,” Amy said to Dan. “C’mon.”
    They both raced toward the descending cage and jumped.
    Amy felt the cage rattle as she landed. Dan landed next to her. Arabella Kessler screamed, and one of the reporters shouted, “HEY!”
    Amy and Dan dropped to their knees and laced their fingers through the mesh. The chilly wind threatened to blow them off the top of the cage.
    Amy looked down through the wire cage. Arabella’s angry face stared up at her.
    “Going down?” Dan asked.

Chapter 5

    “That went well,” Nellie said, fiercely turning the wheel as she exited the highway at Attleboro. “Just a reminder: One is supposed to ride in the
inside
of an elevator. Are you both insane?”
    “We were just trying to get away!” Dan protested. “You should have seen those guys! They were trying to kill us!”
    “Or scare us,” Amy said.
    “Scare us to
death
,”
Dan said. “We could have been pancaked on the pavement!”
    Amy shook her head in frustration. “Why did this guy Pierce target us? It’s not just to sell papers.”
    “He recognized us, Amy,” Dan said. “Somehow he
knows
us. Did you see the way he looked at you?”
    Amy shivered as she remembered that gaze, ice gray and unrelenting. “He hates me. And I never met him before today!”
    “Whoa, duck down!” Nellie suddenly yelled. “The vultures are still circling.”
    A phalanx of cars still waited outside the Cahill gates. Nellie gunned the motor as the gates swung open and zoomed inside. As soon as they were out of sight, Amy and Dan popped up again.
    Dan held out his phone to Amy with a groan. There was a picture on the Exploiter website of Dan and Amy balancing on top of the elevator cage. They were grimacing from the effort of holding on, but it looked like they were smiling. The headline was CAHILL CUTUPS ENDANGER BOSTON PEDESTRIANS FOR KICKS.
    Amy dropped her head in her hands. “This is a nightmare. And we don’t even have one clue. This guy popped up out of nowhere.”
    “Everybody has a history,” Dan said. He dug into his pocket. “And one of the security guards dropped this.” He held up a scrap of paper.
    “It’s a ticket from the New Jersey Turnpike,” Amy said, examining it. “That doesn’t tell us much.”
    “Well, we can place them on the road