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She pulled her legs up and wrapped her arer, changing Suddenly, the people in thes I’ for the past to overtake the present"

"What about the future?" I frowned "Everything we’ve seen so far has been from the past No rips from the future"

Michael didn’t answer

"When’s the last tied her knees htly to her chest

"A while Since the end of the su around the time the full scene rips showed up"

"Around the ti with the ti," E to know that you don’t, either"

"Jack is still doing dae to the continuum," Michael said "If I’m honest, I don’t think we have until Halloween to find hi"

Chapter 17

If the world was in danger, it stood to reason that Lily and I had a lot of work to do

Murphy’s Laas so full I’d had to wait for a seat at the bar Everyone else had a laptop open in front of theed into a power strip in the wall I tried to look busy and iot dirty looks fro pastcoffeepot, and I pulled back just in tirandmother is in the kitchen"

"Sorry, I didn’t know," I said "Where do you want , she topped off the cups of the people at the table closest to race and precision Obviously, she’d almost hit me because she wanted to

"Clock tower steps Twenty minutes Get out"

The stone clock tower served as the perfect testas had come Connected to the old train station, it was now ho up the side The clock hands h space that the top two floors could be rented for s or parties

I sat down at the far left side of the steps and leaned back on my elbows

Michael hadout of time While he and Em continued to help my dad solve the riddle of the exotic matter formula, Dune and Nate would continue the computer and physical searches for any kind of records about Jack

That left me to pair up with Lily

"Kaleb?"

Nervous exciteirl I alnized "Yeah?"

"I’m Macy?" She said it as if she weren’t sure herself "We met don last summer? You let me drive your Jeep down Broadway"

I’d let her park it, too

"Macy" If I leaned back another half an inch, I’d be able to see up her incredibly short skirt Patting the space beside h reracefully onto the step above s "I’ht"

"I reain "But I do not reet it now"

"Maybe I should" I lightly touched her knee and was pleased to see the chill bu her chill bumps before But that could have been someone else

"Ahem"

Macy and I looked up