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I scowled because he suddenly sounded too serious "Oh, she’ll get it She’s like overqualified She has to get it"

He"Yeah, but what if they’ve heard sohtened, shocked senseless by the question "You know about that?" I had no idea he knew about that

With a snort, he rolled his eyes "I’m fourteen, not stupid Of course I know she was fired because of him I was there when her old boss came to his hospital room after he broke his collarbone and threatened to expose theht; he was fourteen, not a little kid any on, and he knew exactly how otten Aspen into

"Well, even if they do somehow,deal since she ended upthe student she had an affair with Besides, they were both legal adults, andand it had been at the college level Ilike that with a piddly high school kid"

"Hey" He lifted his hands in offense "I’h school kids, thank you very htly in the arhed "Honestly, if they don’t hire herthen we’ll just have to kill off another English teacher so"

Aspen was a Gamble now, and we Gaeneration of Gaet anted, either We wouldn’t honestly commit ood lie

After all, one well-placed lie had gotten "Kelly" away froht so I could take her place

I sed nervously, letting ht of his Kelly impersonator I wondered--

"Oh, yeah I like the way you think" Brandt’s voice snappeda fist up for me to bump, he nodded his approval "I’ll come up with a way to take out the next teacherif we have to"

I clashed my knuckles with his "Just don’t make it too bloody" He knew I had an aversion to blood

He laughed and started talking about different poisons and ways to "accidentally" electrocute soory things so rown up around it, so I was used to it by now, but still I could never think up soe shit that had at one time or another entered all three of my brothers’ heads

Brandt and I were halfway through our breakfast when Colton finally stu

"Morning, sleepyhead," I called to the nine-year-old

I was continually stunned by how rown in the last year He’d been a frail waif of a thing back hootten sick a lot I’d been worried about hi it to ten But ever since we’dinfluence, he’d becoht end up being the biggest Gamble brother of the three

Which just went to shoful I’d been about taking care of hiotten one black eye frootten in them constantly back home I must’ve had the worst motherly instincts ever to let the three of us fall to such depths

Noel liked to reassure me and tell me that I’d done a fine job, that co But the truth re a caretaker than I’d ever been

That was another reason I wanted to i brother I’d felt as if I’d failed him If only I’d taken better care of Brandt and Colton, he wouldn’t have had to rearrange his entire life to scoop us up and move us to Ellamore with him

As much as I blaainstfor Aspen--his first love--he padded over tofor me, but I didn’t care I curledbagel and favorite strawberry creaht "But you weren’t in your room"