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I’ll send the minute Are you sure?

Yes You should know that you’ll be staying at my house for every school break until you’re fifty

Noted, I said, channeling Hol er off and stuffed my phone in et so for her She’d come back in, or she wouldn’t, and either way, I couldn’t face the world yet What would I do? Go console August Moriarty for threatening soht have kidnapped Leander?

I finally accoh it was the alloped away fro all at once, incomprehensible in their noise When I woke, I felt around for my phone It was dinnertime The day had slipped away I needed to wash ust in the corridor, sending a series of rapid-fire texts of his own He looked exhausted "Rough day?" he asked

"I could ask you the sa Where’s Holo She looked like she was off to draw blood What did she learn while I was out? She wouldn’t say"

I made a noncommittal noise

"Anyway, I had some inforh with an address There’s a party spot soo to Turns into a se the day It’s Monday, so it very well ht be worth a look It’s a place ht pop up Lots of artists Lots of coke That sort of thing"

I didn’t think I’d heard hiht "You told Hol at his phone "I thought we’d ust shrugged "Getting dinner?"

"Back up You just effectively told a clearly upset Charlotte Holaveher is a terrible idea, you know Charlotte always kno to find coke She’s a recovering drug addict How do you think that works? I trust her to know her liot up in his face "You knew her for how many months, when she was fourteen? What kind of lirowled, "is an addict, so yes, I do know so about it, and unless you just coine this being a situation that" He trailed off All at once, the blood went out of his face "Oh my God, Jamie What have you done?"

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