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"Don’t worry?" I echo in disbelief I’ to adjust his curtains so that when the sun coin Wasser Hall this whole tied to convince everyone he enty-nine si his hair blond He brainwashed a fifteen-year-old girl fro her with his bare hands is an appropriate teachinglance at the ceiling "Keep worrying Buta safe house for the victi on his bed, the sheets of which I still need to change because I can’t re it’s been since either of us have slept in it, but the a hair accumulated there indicates it’s becoht you said you didn’t mind"

"Of course I don’t mind" I climb down from theseat The curtains appear to be a lost cause "I just think she should be in the hospital with Bridget, not here We’re not qualified to give Tania the mental health care she obviously needs, Cooper"

"I’m aware of that" He looks down at the ice at the bottolass only He toldet her to go, she was so terrified when she heard what happened What else was I supposed to do?"

I sink down onto the bed beside him I don’t blame Cooper None of it’s his fault

I place the blaton’s shoulders He’s the jerk who heard the news about Gary Hall’s being discovered in Wasser Hall--he was in his father’s office, no doubt asking for a loan--then rushed over to Fischer Hall to "ht"

Tania overheard the two of theone with the wounded protection officer and the "girl from Tania Trace Rock Camp" to Belle-vue Hospital--and proet her away froazes of the caure out as going on, asked Tania where he could take her

"That’s the part I still don’t understand," I say "What made her want to come here? She’s never been here before How did she even think of it?"

Cooper looks unco ested her place, my parents’ place, even her and Jordan’s place in the Ha no, no No place I suggested was ‘safe’ enough She kept saying Gary was going to find her And she was cryingI’ve never seen anybody cry that much I didn’t kno to handle it All I could think was that if you’d been there, you’d have knohat to do And all I wanted to do was co Ito that effect, and she latched on to itnext thing I know, she was saying so the last place he’d ever look for her It et her out the door and into the car I didn’t think much more about it after that, I was so relieved" He looks at the ceiling "I didn’t think she was going to uess," I say "I could see her feeling unsafe in her and Jordan’s aparthly unlikely Gary would ever be able to get in Still, I think she’d be harder to find--and more anonymous--checked into a hotel We don’t have a doorman or even a super--"

"That’s true," Cooper says "On the other hand, here it’s only us There’s no one to leak her presence to the press, no unsuspecting busboy who can be bribed to let so under her door’ Noto ask if she wants turn-down service Once the deadlock on the front door is bolted and itch on the alar about it Considering the level of anxiety she’s been living with, being hereof a relief"

"And," I point out, "you have your gun"

"And," he agrees, "I have et, there’s you, with your sunny disposition and that welcoh the door and saw her--"

I lift a pillow and bop hihs, "if she’s expecting the Waldorf, she’s going to be sadly disappointed No one’s going to be putting a ht"

"I think all she wants--" Cooper begins to say, but he’s interrupted by a knock on the door Literally, someone says, "Knock, knock"

Cooper looks at me curiously, then calls, "Come in"

Jordan, in black silk pajamas and a robe, leans in and says, "Oh, hey Sorry to disturb you guys Where do you keep your herbal tea? Tania wants so to find some myself in that little kitchenette upstairs so as not to be a pain, but this big orange cat started following --"

"You knohat," I say, getting up off the bed, "why don’t I make some tea for Tania and take it upstairs to her?"

"Are you sure?" Jordan looks worried "We really don’t want to be any bother We feel bad enough, putting Heather out of her apartment the e have"