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"I’ But I have to do it on my terms"

"Your terms? There’s no room for terms, sweetheart"

"Listen, jack hole, I wasn’t aware until recently that Ivy Springs is so for the right word "I don’t know … freak aze bouncing back and forth between us

"Whose word is jack hole?" I asked

Lily kept going "You ht be comfortable hatever your abnor I usually talk about, and it’s definitely not so I’d choose to discuss with you"

"Did Em tell you the consequences if we don’t find Jack?"

"No" Bewilderment

"The people ant Jack claim to have a way to rewind time," I informed her "If we don’t find him and turn him over, they’ll rewind it My dad will be dead, and Eetable in aquickly into fear

Lily shook her head as if she didn’t believe she’d heard etable in a h" Euilt to be Lily’s rand lives," I said "Which is more important?"

"Why didn’t you tell me about the consequences?" Lily asked E her She tried to pull away, but I wouldn’t let her "Why are you trying to hide the truth?"

Eth there was in her petite body, and took off toward the back porch at a jog

"Give us just a second?" I pleaded with Lily She nodded, and I caught up with Em

"We’ll stop Jack," I said "But we have to find hiht tears "Jack never s he ‘did’ for me But I’d be an idiot to think otherwise A best friend with a supernatural ability? A coincidence?"

"I’m sorry, Em"

Her fear was for Lily "And I don’t knohere she’ll end up Her life … it hasn’t been easy as it is What if it was as easy as Jack could make it?"

"Why don’t you just tell her?"

Em lowered her voice as Lily walked toward us "Hoould you feel, hearing that? Knowing your whole life wasfrom your best friend?"

"But you don’t know if--"

"If he did put her here, he knohat her ability is Jack has a reason for everything he does" The tears she’d been fighting filled her eyes "Why would he put someone in our direct path who could find him, especially when he doesn’t want to be found?"

"That’s it Private tiging her long and hard "Em Go inside"

"What?" Em wiped her eyes and frowned

"I want to talk to hi at one, I faced Lily "I usually find bossy to be a sexy trait in a girl You’ve broken the streak"

"I don’t give a damn what you think about me" Lily didn’t mess around; her words always matched her emotions "You haven’t broken any streaks at all I’ve met a hundred boys like you in a hundred different scenarios, even dated one or two, and you’re all exactly the same"