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"I don’t know Ithe screen "Marissa said she’d shoot me an update when she was able to"

"Godda to hear if I have cancer"

"As soh that one? Yup, it’s pretty close"

"I just--"

"Shit!" Mary juot what?"

She put her hands up to her face "The letter he wrote I never gave it to Bitty Oh, God, I don’t want Ruhn to think I’!"

Justlikethat, she was out of the billiards roorand staircase Mo heavily, with the folded papers in her hand

"What does it say?" Rhage asked "I mean, he told us we could read it"

It seeet to what Bitty was experiencing with the guy

"I really hope … well, there’s nothing to be done now" Mary sat down and opened the pages "I will apologize It was an oversight … it’s all just been so emotional"

As she read what had been written in pencil, she was silent for a while, her browsup and down as her eyes went back and forth

"What’s in there?"

"Sorry Ah, he works on the estate as a handys He … takes care of the barn cats and the two security dogs Lives by himself Says … well, this is too bad"

"What, that he molests faretic he wasn’t schooled" She went to the second page "Oh … this is about Bitty’s mom"

"What?" he proo and waited, dru watch Letting his leg bounce against the sofa

Her eyes finally lifted "It’s so sad It’s … heartbreaking He talks about all the things he used to do with Annalye when they were kids Sounds like a pretty perfect upbringing on that estate Their parents worked for the landowners--it’s been generations of the two fah, when Annalye met the male as Bitty’s father Ruhn’s respectful about it and doesn’t giveabout his sister and he tried to find her numerous times He didn’t know for a while that they had even coe rubbed his face "You know, this would be so much easier if I could hate him"

"Would it …?" Mary murmured "I’m not so sure"

"He can’t take care of her like we can"

Mary went to the last page "Oh … er "What--"