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"Poe … I ht have been too harsh I don’t know if he knehat he was doing when he helped your mother"

"He’s been in the hospital, but he hasn’t even called That’s a pretty good sign he’s hiding so"

Dad just frowned

"How did you find out about the Infinityglass and … lass of Maker’s Mark "Gerald Turner He’d been doing sos"

Gerald Turner had been odfather, and a professor at Bennett University in Memphis He’d also been s?"

"Clues that the Infinityglass was huene for it is dormant" Dad frowned and fiddled with the top button of his dress shirt He wasn’t a fiddler "For the Infinityglass gene to become--activated, for lack of a better word--he or she had to coenetic response, a stressor that kicked that specific gene into overdrive"

"Dr Turner just called you, out of the blue, to talk about the Infinityglass? And Mom called me to talk about it, too He lived in Me out of Memphis That’s not a coincidence at all"

"Neither was the tihed heavily on me, and from the lines on Dad’s face, he felt them, too

"Gerald and I talked about Lialass He believed they were trustworthy Then Lialass I guess your ain"

"And then you hired the Hourglass, and they sent you Dune"

"He’s gone" When Dad set his jaw, I kneas in for a fight "He wasn’t supposed to tell you anything He broke our agrees happened to us that blew his cover It’s not like he just started spewing inforreeued "Dune has infor for you instead of Hourglass now"

"He was supposed to be, but I’ht about the way Dune had reacted so cale, and the possession A lesser man would have pissed himself and then run like hell Not only had he stuck, he’d helpedme feel needy

And he really did have the sweetest eyes I’d ever seen He smiled with his eyes as , and I alith s

"He is" I surprised ive him a job to do, let him prove hiive him a job that stretches him a little One that requires him to put his Goody Two-shoesabout the Bourbon Orleans job"

"Since Poe’s out of the picture, you don’t have anyone else to do it, and if I recall, the finder’s fee was hefty It would be a sha, innocent eyes "He won’t have to do much, and I’ll be perfectly safe You did hire hiuard"

"He wasn’t supposed to ever leave the house with you"

"He found ht iven Dad the whole story about what happened outside Lafitte’s, but deciding what information to share and what to withhold froe with your own father, but it hat it was

"You drive a hard bargain, kid" He shook his head "You did learn fro to fire hi moment "Why does thisaround for days keeping a secret frolass Besidesout exactly what that ht? Because he’s supposed to know the most?"