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Now I stepped back a full foot "Hoere you wrong?"

"Lete of people and use what they have to benefit yourself"

"You say that knowing I need your help to find Jack Putting you in danger, going against your grande"

"Not to benefit you," she said, disagreeing "To benefit people that you love I know that’s your desire, and that’s the thing that comes first You don’t have to ask me, Kaleb I’ll do whatever it takes to help you"

"But your grand--"

"Focus," she said "I have a point toin the citrus scent of her hair "I’" She pushed back and took… I think, in trying so hard to be different fro that, you’ve missed some answers"

"Explain"

"I’ve been thinking about this since the night we talked in Mee You take terrible emotions and keep them away from the people they hurt How tied are emotions and memories?"

I stared at her

"You can’t separate the two Jack keeps telling you killing him would be ayou the truth If you kill Jack, you kill your oes, so do they"

"Are you saying he’s the key to restoringyou are"

"How?"

"The memories Jack took were the ones that were most important to your mother" Lily spoke slowly "Her love for your father and you, all the personal ether If those memories aren’t tied in e theirthe them over?" I shook in"

"That’s why you’re going to practice on me"

I followed her to her bedrooraphs everywhere Built-in bookshelves lined one wall, craanized by color It looked like a perfect rainbow She sat down on the edge of her double bed, leaned back on the red duvet cover, and held out her foot I stared at it, and then looked at her

"Knee boots?" She grinned "Can you help ht boot off while I was facing her, but for the left, I turned around to give her a view of

"I enjoy yours all the tiave a little wiggle before I faced her again "What’s with the socks?"

They were liirl wears under her clothes is just as important as the clothes themselves And I like a little spice underneath" She looked directly atthem around in a circle, and threw them over her shoulder One landed on the bookcase, the other in a corner

"You’re trying to killto kill h like this in the ift" Lily scooted to the ed "I’m ready when you are"

"I told Abi I wouldn’t let you put yourself at risk, and I randmother wants doesn’t matter when it does" Still, I sat down across fro for ued "If we can do this, you can figure out exactly what to look for with your parents It should be even easier with them, because the three of you shared hed, and then put my hands on her hips and slid her toward rabbedover I stared down at her fingers onher eyes, and then leaned forward to touch athered in h my skin She put her arms around my neck and pulled me closer