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"You’re still hter and you will listen to your mother" Sara turned on Mina and put her hands on her hips

"Yes, Mother, I will listen to you gladly, and do whatever you tell " Mina was an obedient daughter but she was also old enough now to shoulder soued herI can help Don’t you think I need to know?"

Sara’s expression didn’t change, but her shoulders dropped toward the floor as if they carried the weight of the world, or at least one teenager "I told you, it’s for your own good"

"Is this because of the newspaper article? About what happened on the field trip?"

Sara didn’t say anything Her silence was the only answer Mina needed

"It’s because I saved so to make sense; a click went on in her brain that connected the pieces together "You always discouraged e et noticed, to be a loser You always feared so terrible would happen to me, but that wasn’t all of it, was it?"

Charlie walked into the kitchen with a s his um, baseball cards, his rock collection Frole ite the discussion between his an to pack up his cereals

"But I finally accoreat like save a life and for one day I’ the center of attention, but that’s it, isn’t it? You were afraid for sohed and collapsed down onto a kitchen chair She rubbed her s like that I was trying to keep you fro too much attention"

Mina stood ry "That doesn’t make sense Isn’t that the opposite of what mothers are supposed to say? Don’t you want , our fareatness, but the sacrifice that coht, if I could keep you away froht, if I could keep you hidden, then maybe we could outrun it"

"Moan to shiver as a cold breeze wafted through the roo tih to know the truth, to share the burden" Sara waited until Charlie had left the kitchen and headed for a second round of favorite objects to pack away "Mina, I’ve lied to you about your na"

"Okay," she said, her voice sounding shaky

"Our last na as I could re to outrun it"

"Outrun what exactly?"

"Outrun what killed your father years agothe Grimm curse"

Chapter 5

She felt as if her world was spinning uncontrollably "I think I need to sit down," Mina said pathetically Sara juhter and led her to the s room

Mina was about to ask more questions, but Sara held up her hand to stop her "Please sweetie, let ather her thoughts before proceeding "It goes farther back to your great-great-great-grandfather, Wilhelm Grimm, and his brother, Jacob"

"The Grimms Do you mean the ones rote the fairy tales?"