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There are really gross guys who assu but sex, and wouldn’t hesitate to take advantage of someone alone with theuys, in this world or any other "Whatever you want"

I look into his eyes, and the hope I see there slashes acrossthe truth about tonight

Paul hesitates before he says, "Is this about, well--revenge?"

"Revenge?" I want ainst Wyatt Conley, but hoould Paul know that?

I understand once Paul continues, "Against Private Beck For leaving you alone in the city"

"Oh! No, it isn’t" Will he believe that? Would I? "Maybe that’s why I called you But it’s not why I had such a good tier"

"I wouldn’t want you to do anything you’d regret"

Paul, do you have to be such a perfect gentleht now? "I won’t"

"It’s just--" He takes a deep breath, weighing the words he’s going to say "Do you knohen I first fell for you?"

I shouldn’t hear this Only the other Marguerite should hear this, ever Paul shouldn’t be saying it out loud to so him But there’s no way for me to tell hio on "You remember the warehouse in Miramar we used as the first makeshift lab? Concrete walls and bare rebar I don’t pay much attention to how places look, but that place depressed me"

"It would’ve depressed anyone," I say, because that’s what it sounds like

Paul sht that hadn’t been painted over, remember? With the panes that had been broken and taped sowhy Paul would fixate on an old

"You probably don’t remember, but there was one day--back early on ere cleaning out the warehouse and getting it ready, you and Josie too--this one day, I saw you staring upward I asked you what you were looking at, and you said, the light You told ht"

Paul’s entire expression has changed as he tells this story The aardness is gone It’s as if so inside hiht cut across the top of the warehouse just so You said it was beautiful--that you’d like to try and sketch that so as orked in that warehouse, I never forgot to look up at the light Sometimes it felt like the one scrap of joy I could still have And I thought, if Marguerite could find so, even here, that’s beautiful, she could "

"I alondered if you would laugh at me, if I told you that" Paul’s crooked s closer, I shakeso perfect"