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"I’ on it"

"Then why call e?"

"I was about to come over there before your mother does"

"What?" Shane asks

"She calledthat it’s io to your apartht? Why aiveswith a shake of his head, while Seth answers "She wouldn’t tell "

Shane nods his understanding but see his attention back to his call "Of course my mother wouldn’t tell you what she wants," he concludes to Seth "That would be too simple I’ll deal with her"

"I’ll have a report on the security feed by h people to get "

Woht? Surely not

"Until she goes ho her"

Da about the woman his father is with and it’s a slippery slope he’s headed down

"Try," Shane orders, ending the call to look at me "I need to deal with my mother It’ll be fast"

"I could hear every word of both sides of your conversation," I quickly say, "not just your part I should go to the balcony"

"I want you right here"

"No you don’t, because I’ll tell you that you shouldn’t be looking into that woman, Shane And yet I know it’s none of my business"

"What it is, is more complicated than a sio to the balcony"

"Stay," he says, and while he says it like one of his commands, which I’ve come to realize are simply second nature to him, I sense an undertone of a plea I don’t believe he’d ever issue

I give a choppy nod and resettle on the barstool He wastes no ti a button on his phone and al on, Mother?"

"I heard you saw your father tonight," I hear her reply