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"Aside fro the reward for me increased to a half million dollars?" Sam asks

"Oh come on, you know you love it"

"Yeah, it’s pretty cool," he says, grinning "Anyway, no, nothing new I don’t see how Henri kept up with all this There’re literally thousands of stories every day"

"Henri never slept"

"Don’t you want to go check out Six in her bathing suit?" Sa back to the screen I’m surprised by the lack of sarcasm in his voice He kno I feel about Sarah And I kno he feels about Six

"What’s that supposed to mean?"

"I see the way you look at her," Sam says He clicks on a link about a plane crash in Kenya One survivor

"And how do I look at her, Sam?"

"Never mind" The survivor is an old woman Definitely not one of us

"The Loric fall in love for life, man And I love Sarah You know that"

Sam looks over the screen of the laptop "I know you do It’s just that, I don’t know You’re the kind of guy she’d go for, not some math nerd obsessed with aliens and outer space I just don’t see how Six could fall for soet it"

I walk out the rear sliding glass door leading to the pool Beyond the pool lies an overgrown yard enclosed by a brick wall offering privacy frohbor is a quarter mile away The nearest town is a ten- the top like so twice as fast, is a platypus-shapedwhite hair and a beard--I have no idea what anie, pulling herself halfway out of the water and resting her arle for , and I can’t help but think how nice it is to be down South again

"You better not be killingat her perfect shoulders, her slender neck Maybe Sa at Six the same way he does I want more than ever to run back inside, turn on my phone, and hear Sarah’s voice

"More like he’s killingof which, how’s your head?"

"Still hurts," I say, running a hand over it "But nothing I can’t handle I’"

"Good," she says "I’ time since I’ve trained with somebody"

"You’re sure you want to train with ht?"

She laughs, and then spits athe surface of the pool and forcing a blast of air over it Water rushes towards her face She dives beneath the surface to keep fro splashed, and when she coe wave that nearly e her towards me Before I can react sheinto the back of the house I hear her laughing The water recedes to the pool, and I stand and try pushing her backwards into it She deflects h the air upside dohere I flail helplessly