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Bex finished "And her bosses want you dead"
"Because I’ve seen the list"
In , and, with it, theback I saw my father and read the words on the crumpled napkin And then I knehat they had wanted--what part of the best crianization in the world had chased me to find
What the reht," I said to Zach, somehow amused "I didn’t need the copy Gilly hid in Ireland I had it all along"
Outside, sleet was falling, and in the war I was faintly aware that I was standing The as cool beneath lass
"Cam, what are you--" Bex started, but Liz said, "Shhh"
And I started writing
It was like the gun in CoveOps, like the way the assassin’s rifle found its way into rasp on the hill My hands were not , and I didn’t want them to stop
When I ran out of space on the first pane, I moved to another And then another I could feelthe words that I left Drops of water bled down the glass, running line into line, but I couldn’t stop
I had to keep writing until…
"Cam, is that…" Liz started
"Elias Crane," she said, looking up at Mr Soloricheer it runs in the family"
"Charles Dubois," Liz offered another
"There’s a Charlene Dubois with the European Union," Abby said, running her hand through her hair "Half the defense spending on that continent goes through her"
There were four na until--
"Mrs Morgan?" Liz’s voice was tio…into…the business?"
"It’s unlikely that leadership would come from outside sources," Mr Soloirls More so even than the CIA"
"But…" Liz went on, eyes wide "Does it ever…skip…a generation or so?"
"Why?" Bex asked
Liz took a deep breath, then she pulled me away from theso that the others could see "Because the last name on the list is Samuel P Winters"
Chapter Forty-two
PROS AND CONS OF THE WEEK THAT FOLLOWED:
(A list by Ca finally that you really were crazy for a little while But it’s over now
CON: Craziness (tee looks from underclass--like a song that’s been bugging you--you can stop singing it Forever
CON: There’s nothing like being brainwashed and irl wonder if she’ll ever stop doubting her own judg a clue that could help elianization means some of the coolest spies in the world spend time behind your mother’s office door (especially spies naht, that door stays closed to you
I’ve grown up in the halls of the Gallagher Academy--I know the floors that slant and the stairs that squeak I can walk the a particularly long snowstorrade year) But after that…after that they felt different--like I was seeing them for the first time in months Like ayou don’t know is dirty until it’s been cleaned In the week that followed, I saw everything with a new light
I saw everything
Ambassador Winters hadn’t saved me in Rome He’d cornered et o down, the fake police officer he’d wantedthis But he hadn’t
A week after Dr Steve left, I was lying withup through the skylights at theWe should have been worrying about final tests and projects and papers But our books lay unopened around us The questions on our minds hadn’t co the silence "There’s soet"
"What’s that?"
She propped herself up on an elbow "Preston’s dad Why did he show up at the bank? Why didn’t he just let them kill you?"
It was an excellent question--one I’d thought about off and on for days "I think…" I started slowly "I think he wanted to find out what I knehat I remembered about the list About last summer I think he didn’t want to kill me if he didn’t have to"
But he did have to, and, thankfully, no one said it
"You okay?" Zach asked He looked like he was about to pick me up and run back to the doctors as fast as he possibly could