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Lily darted a glance at randmother Everyone calls her Abi"

"I’m pleased to meet you" I held out my hand

She eyedme for fleas "I’ll put on some coffee And then we’ll talk Sit"

I sat down at the kitchen table and waited

An hour later, I didn’t knohat they were saying, because they were doing it in Spanish, but their cootten around to lunch

"Es deroso" Abi stood and slammed her hands down on the table "¡Dije que no … y eso es final!"

"Obviously, it’s a no," Lily said toup in her eyes

"She’s scared," I replied without thinking

That earned a heated response in Spanish froed ence

I let Abi finish before I spoke directly to her "What I mean is, if your fear is rooted as deeply as it seems to be, I don’t want Lily to be involved, either"

She dropped back into her chair, crossed her arms, and said so you for honorable Unless you’re playing soame"

"Why doesn’t any of this surprise you?" Lily asked "I just told you about ti time You should be shocked, or at the very least doubtful"

Abi picked up her coffee s in this world I don’t understand It doesn’t uilt confusedto read Abi

"What?" Lily asked, looking back and forth between the two of us

Sharing Abi’s ehter wasn’t my place

"I just told her you can sense e" Lily had covered a lot of information in an hour She turned fro about all this, you’d tell uilt

"There’s no reason to discuss it" Abi’s voice was full of grim determination "It’s the past, and we left it behind e left Cuba"

"We never discuss Cuba at all There are things I want to remember Our home Our fa"

"I don’t accept that" I saw Abi’s fierceness in Lily’s eyes and anticipated she’d rown , you have to tell me ¿Por favor? Please"

Abi put her coffee cup down and walked to the wide, arched double s that overlooked the town square of Ivy Springs "People lose things, they look for therocery list?’ It was always funny that your grandfather sees were He just … knew Then your father was born, and he could find things, too Your father was five when I discovered el truco de ic trick"

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