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"Of course Bonnie’s upset," Alaric said "This is her first real boyfriend But the three of you have been through a lot together She’l coets a chance to cool down" His voice was deep and loving, and Meredith squeezed her eyes shut and held the phone rad-student apartment with the cozy brown couch and the milk-crate bookshelves She had never wished so hard that she was there
"What if soh?" Meredith said "I can’t wait around for Bonnie to get over being er"
Alaricnoise into the phone, and Meredith could picture his forehead scrunching in that cute way it did when he was analyzing a probleles
"Well," he said at last, "Bonnie’s been spending a lot of tiht? A lot of time alone? And she’s been fine thus far I think we can conclude that, even if Zander is the one behind the attacks on ca to hurt Bonnie"
"I think your reasoning is sort of specious there," Meredith said, feeling oddly coave a shter "Don’t cal ical" Meredith heard the creak of Alaric’s desk chair on the other end of the line and i back, phone tucked into his shoulder, hands behind his head "I’
Meredith nestled farther into her bed, pressing her face against the pil ow "I can’t talk about it yet," she said, closing her eyes "I just have to figure out who kil ed her"
"I don’t know if this is going to be useful," Alaric said,
"but I’ve been doing some research on the history of Dalcrest"
"Like the ghosts and weirdabout in class?"
"Well, there’s even e than he told the papers, probably flicking through the pages of one of his research notebooks "Dalcrest appears to be so of a paranormal hotspot There have been incidents that sound like vahout its history, and this isn’t the first ti of mysterious disappearances on campus"
"Real y?" Meredith sat up "How can the col ege stay open if people disappear al the time?"
"It’s not al the time," Alaric replied "The lastthe Second World War
There was a lot of populationstudents left worried friends and fawomen to marry soldiers or to work in munitions factories The fact that the students never turned up again seearded, and the cases weren’t viewed as related"