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Outside, the night was terribly cold and that seeot into the Volvo and started the engine, she went miles before any appreciable heat came out of the vents, but it was okay She was too nu’s Audience House was some distance away and yet her destination arrived too quickly Then again, her intention had been to use the drive to collect herself--and really, she could have gone to California and back and not felt any different

Just as she was getting out by the garage, Rhage was

As she saw hiain, but she was over that She didn’t have the energy, even if the ee

"Coet this over with"

They entered through the back door, using the code, and then walked through the kitchen, heading for that library

When they entered the for on the sofa in front of the fire Next to her uncle

Damn, the family resemblance was so clear

Do not cry, Mary said to herself as she forced a suilt over this

You’re the adult She’s the victim of domestic abuse, an orphan, and a child

Do not make this worse

Of course, all that self-talk didn’t really change the way she felt But at least the stern lecturing distracted her fro down

Marissa was seated beside the pair of blood relations and she got to her feet with enviable grace "Thank you for co ain a lawyer’s office For, like, a fence dispute

Except they were third parties, Mary reed to sit down on the sofa across froe was as quiet as she was

God, she couldn’t meet Bitty in the eye for more than a second or two, and she needed to work on that--

"So, Ruhn? Or Bitty?" Marissa said "Would you like to speak now?"

There was a long silence, and Mary was the one who broke it Looking right into Bitty’s eyes, she said in a voice that ht, it’s all going to be--"