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"It’s really okay"

I’d expected Dad to take a piece out ofis fine"

"What about Michael and the girls?"

"They’re okay, too" I was surprised he asked about Mike I figured he’d already know "Can we go in your office?"

"Sure"

I followed hilass collection on his bookshelf I tracedthe absence of dust "Are you going to tell me about these?"

"What do you mean?" A weak attempt at evasion

"What’s with the collections?" He wasn’t going to dodge me this tioing to find it siend About an object called the Infinityglass"

I tensed, working to control lass is mythical, orhis hands across his chest "There was no evidence to suggest otherwise Your ht up in a race to find so that didn’t exist"

"You think it’s real"

"I became obsessed with it It caused some issues between your mother and lass was because she forbade it"

My ue seemed to be pretty obsessed with it herself"

"How did you … you found her" He stood so quickly his black leather chair rolled away froave you pero on a scavenger hunt throughfor Jack’s Teague just happened to be the center point"

"Did you talk to her? Tell her who you were?"

"No Lily and I eavesdropped on her from inside a closet Chronos has set up shop in Memphis Inside the Pyramid Gerald Turner caht of his silly brown fedora, the turtle ashtray on his desk All the people erehim

"Gerald Turner?" Dad asked Terror and relief

I nodded

"He was found dead in his office yesterday," Dad said slowly, as if his lips were out of coer didn’t shape itself the way mine did It came fast and hot "Do you realize what kind of situation you put yourself in? What could have happened to you, to any of you? None of this is a joke Not to Teague, not to Jack, not to me Not to whoever killed Dr Turner"

"I didn’t knohat I alking into because you don’t trust h to tell me the truth Don’t you think it’s tilass is, what it does, and why Teague is looking for it"

He turned his back tohis temples I waited him out "The short version is that its intended purpose was to channel time-related abilities from person to person, but it didn’t work out that way Instead, it was a one-way conductor Whoever possesses the Infinityglass can use it to steal the ability of anyone he or she touches"