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"I don’t have time to have trust issues, Hallie, and neither do you"

"There’s always ti to help each other, we have to put everything on the table" He rubbed his hands on the knees of his jeans and stood "I’ve ive us an ultimatum from your mom"

"You know Poe?" The admission made me dizzy "What kind of ultimatum?"

"She wanted us to find someone" His frown toldwhether or not to tell it "She turned Poe into her sock puppet to get it done, and she clai My mother consistently proved she felt she was entitled to say or do whatever she wanted to get her way "Who did she want you to find?"

"A e device called a Skroll, and she needed him to open it"

"What was on it?"

"Inforlass stole it from her, and I broke the encryption and downloaded the information on it When we turned Landers over to yoursome info"

I tapped the hard drive that sat on my vanity beside Dune’s laptop "It’s all here?"

"That and athered over the years, and even sos my dad found before he died"

"My whole life encapsulated in one external drive"

"Not your whole life Nothing could contain you" The fierceness in his voice surprised both of us

"I’ll take that as a compliment," I said cautiously "If I want to knohat’s on that drive, I guess it’scircle?"

"It’s a very small circle"

Sers tapped on his track pad "Will you talk to me about your … symptoms?"

I searched his eyes Trusted what I saw "I started seeing rips, but apparently everyone else with the tiy levels are insane I don’t need to sleep or eat I do, out of habit, but it isn’t necessary All my senses feel sharper And I heal really fast Insanely fast I can also hold any fors like my vocal cords and hair color have always been either impossible or complicated Not anyht for a second, and then rave; la Star Trek

"Ja me a sexy Samoan" I slipped back into my normal skin "Are you okay? You kind of look like you sed your tongue"

"Fine I’m fine" He rubbed one hand over his face, picked up a pencil, and started scribbling in his spiral notebook

"The possession, or whatever, isn’t connected to lass thing" I tried to sound casual as I asked the next question "Do you have a theory on how the Infinityglass part of ear?"

He tapped the eraser end of his pencil on the vanity "It could be … hormonal"

"Excuse me?"

"That wasn’t er for soavein his notebook again

"Yeah I passed that a long tienetic stressor could be an object or a s"