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He kneas cruel to say, even if it was the truth Because of course Gansey would say --

"I don’t"

"I know you don’t Look, it’s not like I’ to say leave you behind, but that was too hed terribly "I’otten how to breathe in water"

But Ada about the suppressed truth: The two of them were on perpendicular paths, not parallel ones, and eventually, they’d have to go different ways By college, probably If not college, then after A tension was building in hiht, where he wanted to save Gansey, or be Gansey

Gansey turned to hine, hio to Cabeswater without me, Adam?"

Here it was, finally

The truth was a coed

"No," said Gansey "Not that"

"I don’t knohat to tell you"

"How about the truth?"

"I don’t knohat the truth is"

"I just don’t believe that," Gansey said He was starting to use the voice The Richard Gansey III voice "You don’t do soht work on Ronan," Adam replied "But it doesn’t work on hed humorlessly "Ronan never took my car He didn’t lie tohad to be done, or Whelk would’ve had control of the line right now" Adam cast a hand out in the direction of the stairs, back toward the party, toward the singing Latin "He would be the one hearing that I did the right thing"

"That wasn’t the question The question is: that night You had to walk right byAdam Parrish, army of one"

He was Ada courtiers, would never be able to understand that

Ada "What do you want me to say, Gansey?"

"Just tell me why I’ve defended you to Blue and Ronan for weeks now"

The idea of his behavior being a topic of conversation infuriated Adam "If the others have a problem with me, they can take it up with me"

"Damn it, Adam That’s not the point, either The point is -- just tell ain"

"What’s ‘it’? So you didn’t ask for? If you wanted so person"

There was a pause, full of the distant ringing of silverware and glasses Sohed

And that sigh was the final straw Because it didn’t whisper of pity It drowned in it

"Oh, don’t even," snapped Adam "Don’t you dare"

There was no switch this tiry Because he’d already been angry It was already dark, and noas black

"Look at you, Ada Exhibit A, Adam Parrish, ioers, their false civility, the glittering lights, the fakery of everything He struggled for words "That’s right ‘There’s Ada to say when he woke the ley line by himself? I don’t know, Ronan Let’s not ask hi what needed to be done"

"Oh, don’t lie tothe or you don’t" There was so able to say it out loud, everything he’d been thinking He shouted, "And you don’t need hi to sit back and let someone else take my shot out of this"

Gansey’s eyes darted down the hall and back to Adaht, Gansey, don’t wake the baby His voice was very low "Glendoas not yours, Adam This was mine first"

"You asked us Either you htly pressed a finger into Adam’s chest "This? I don’t think so"

Adam seized Gansey’s wrist He wasn’t nice about it The suit was slippery as blood under his fingers "I’ to be your minion, Gansey Was that what you wanted? You want me to help you find him, you let me look my way"