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"How do you know? I thought if you read that thing too long, you lost yourbits and pieces of it over the last several decades"

I digested that one "Okayyyyyy So the Book knew I had a sister roa around the wilds of wherever" Then it hit"You knew I had a sister"

"Yes"

"You knew I had a sister" I guess I felt like if I said it out loud enough, it would be less painful? "You knew I had a sister"

"Yes Until today, I had thought the sibling in question was the baby your step now" Then he added, totally cal you"

"Eric!" Jessica shouted from the hallway "Work with me!" She raced in, Marc on her heels "What is the matter with you? I fix it so you canthat makes her nuts Crazy, insane!"

"I think it&039;s safe to say," I said through nuht now"

"It&039;s just that you had soto cover Sinclair&039;s ass as usual "Being sovereign and solving the murders from this summer and the-the house situation and the other va your position and all of that That&039;s why he had to go to Eur-neverabout your sister being the daughter of the devil and taking over the world"

I had been holding my teacup in both hands and accidentally squashed it like a bug Jessica winced Marc just stared at all of us "What?"

Tina bit her lip "Oh dear"

"Thank you for your assistance," Sinclair replied dryly

Jessica dumped the cookies and crackers off the silver tray, walked around the table, and cracked Sinclair over the head with it With a hollow bonnnng!, the silver dented Sinclair didn&039;t turn, just kept his steady, dark gaze on me

"Lower," I said

"You&039;re so evicted," she told him