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  “But it’s a big store,” Reva said. “We could’ve been anywhere in it.”

  “That’s where the luck part came in,” Barkley replied. “The other agents and I came in through the back of the store. We had no idea where they were keeping you. We split up and started to search. And then I saw the employee elevator start to move. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I watched it stop on five. I knew that had to be it.”

  He turned into the hospital lot entrance and headed the car toward the emergency room. “I rode the elevator to five—and there you were,” he said. “Sometimes we get lucky.”

  Reva groaned from a stab of pain in her shoulder. “Yeah. This is my lucky day,” she said, rolling her eyes.

  The car stopped. The agent jumped out to help the girls out of the back.

  Reva’s dad and Pam’s parents were waiting by the emergency room door. They came running eagerly.

  Hugs and tears.

  And then another car pulled up, its headlights sweeping over all of them. Victor came running out, leaving the car door open and the engine running.

  At first Reva thought he was rushing to greet her. But when he ran to Pam, grabbing her in his arms, sweeping her up in an emotional hug, Reva found herself feeling relieved.

  A happy ending for all, she thought with a sigh. She followed everyone into the hospital.

  Stepping into the bright glare of the waiting room, Reva stopped. What was that song, that song on the speaker above the reception desk?

  It was “Silent Night.”

  “Silent Night.” Of course.

  About the Author

  “Where do you get your ideas?”

  That’s the question that R. L. Stine is asked most often. “I don’t know where my ideas come from,” he says. “But I do know that I have a lot more scary stories in my mind that I can’t wait to write.”

  So far, he has written nearly three dozen mysteries and thrillers for young people, all of them bestsellers.

  Bob grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Today he lives in an apartment near Central Park in New York City with his wife, Jane, and fourteen-year-old son, Matt.

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