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"Sounds about right" Gazing down at Sinclair’s face, I sighed "Dauy! The nice, uncouy I could talk to about o out to dinner with and hold hands and feel like a norirl for once in my life"

"Sorry" He paused "As opposed to who?"

"Oh, no one in particular" It was a total lie, because of course I ies of both Cody Fairfax and Stefan Ludovic,childhood crush and the centuries-old Outcast who made me feel quivery inside "It’s justthis was supposed to be simple"

"Life isn’t, Daisy," Sinclair murmured

"Tellhis heart beat steadily beneathsoothing in the contact "Your sister’s co back, isn’t she?"

"Uh-huh"

"What happens when she does?" I asked hiain, and I’m pretty sure I can enforce it, but I can’t stop her froaze "I’ll tell her no"

"And?" I prouess? She’ll try to set a duppy on me, one that will haunt"So that’s e need to plan for, right? Protecting you froht" Sinclair nodded "And in a way, I think E I can’t run from I need to take a measure of responsibility for h I left the practice too soon Maybe your local coven can help?"

"Absolutely," I said "I’e against your sister Can you, um, do that? Just switch from one tradition to another?"

"I don’t know," he adh overlap that I can continue to learn from them"

"Good"

An aard silence descended between us Where did that phrase come from? I wonder Silence descended Descended fro over us like the alien spaceship in Independence Day? Maybe it wasn’t really silence sounsaid, words we’d kept at bay, kept in the air, by talking about other things

"So" Sinclair broke the silence and broached the unspoken topic "Where does this leave us?"

"Us" Stalling, I echoed him "As in you and me?"

"Mm-hmm"

"Honestly?" I shook , I was coht of e on your handlebars and feeling on top of the world, and thenbooet that"

I withdrew my hand from his chest "You should have told ht on the couch "Daisy, I swear, if I’d had any idea E to show up here, I would have told you sooner I thought we had all the time in the world"

"I know" I blew out my breath "But we didn’t and we don’t We have one ure out how to keep your evil twin sister fro a duppy on you By the way, is that four weeks or a calendar month? Because it would be helpful--"

"E to lighten the e Tom Cruise? Ridley Scott filht?"

"Of course I saw Legend!" I shouted at hiht rein for too long "And I don’t need any lectures about light and darkness! What do you think I struggle with every day? And letit any easier!"

The air pressure in the living roo scraps of half-stripped wallpaper shivered

"Daisy, I know," Sinclair said in a low voice, cals I like about you You ling toward the light I ader dissipated "Thanks," I , girl? I envy you your mother I wish I had one like her"

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