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"He won’t," he said again Then, "I could try Ruth, maybe She was there also"

One look at hiet any further, not unless I pushed, and I wasn’t sure if I should Not about his family

I looked back at the picture in my hands Then wandered out of lanced down at the photograph and up aton the wall and then I realized as off

"She looks exactly the sa time before either of us spoke

"They couldn’t have been studying there at the same time," I said, once ere back in rand in the States when your o to London every year when yourup Maybe they uess, but they see at the photograph "Like friends"

"Everyone seems that way in pictures"

I rubbed my forehead "Why take a picture with someone you barely know at all, then? It’s weird"

Noah’s eyebrows knitted together "Is it possible she hed "At this point, anything’s possible," I said, and paused "Maybe she was igest ‘time traveler,’ but, sure" He stretched his ar a sliver of stomach above the loaist of his jeans

Torture I cleared raph "My randmother She’d die if she saw yours"

Noah’s smile vanished His expressionelse

"Do you still have the pendant?" I asked

"Yes" The planes of his face were smooth "Do you want it back?"

I did not "It’s safer with you," I said "I’ if le shake of his head before asking, "What’s yourto have Charles look into this," he said, indicating the picture

"And Charles would be"

"The private investigator"

"Did he turn up anything on Jude?"

Noah looked away "Dead end after dead end Did you find the answers you were looking for in that book?"

"I haven’t had a chance to read it yet," I said nonchalantly

A half-sed at Noah’s mouth "You fell asleep, didn’t you?"

I lifted e?"

"I didn’t fall asleep"

"What page?"

Busted "Six," I said "But I was really tired"

"No judgh that obscenely pompous introduction"

"What about the Luku the subject "Any luck?"

Noah’s voice brightened a bit "I did in fact return to Little Havana while you were at Horizons, and I canvassed the botanicas, just as you asked"