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When Mae could speak clearly, she explained that Daisy, her great-granddaughter, had been looking under the weather the last few ht that she was able to overhear the on

Ezra was convinced that rest was the best solution to her current state, and he looked rather drained hietically back at me as he did He cared about her very much, but he was still upset she had any contact with the huht of Jane at the club, and Bobby upstairs with my brother, and shook my head Eventually, everyone would die, except for us, and I could never tell if that was co in the fallen leaves and frost with Matilda The moon was fat, but thin clouds hazed over it I stepped out the French doors, relishing the chill in the air Breathing in deeply, I tried to let the freshness fro else All of Mae’s tears, and all the horrible irinned when he sawhad been des and leaves i a big stick in hera few leaves hi up?" he asked

"Great" I was exaggerating, but I did feel a lot better being outside

"You sure?" He looked atto his tee shirt His bare arround, but I doubted he noticed

"Yeah Mae is the one having the rough night, not me," I said

"How is she?" He looked pastabout her

"I really don’t know," I adet soed It was hard to say how she would hold up

"I’m sorry we couldn’t help Jane more" He returned his concern to ht She has to want to help herself, and she’ll probably never want to," I sighed and rubbed at h they weren’t really cold

"You’ve had a really long night You should probably get soo to bed, but I hadn’t felt completely rested since before I went to Finland I yawned and thought longingly about curling up in bed

"Do you want any co his eyebrows

"You know I do," I chewed my lip I alanted Jack in bed with me, especially after we had started earlier, but my heart wasn’t really in it just then "But we probably shouldn’t I’h to handle what you would do to o in and go ahead to bed I et the dog cleaned up before I can take a shower and crash on the couch"

"I feel so bad about kicking you out of your own bed," I said for the millionth ti if not a gentle you weren’t absolutely comfortable" He leaned down and kissed ht, but the kiss was brief, stopping too soon Still, htened up "Go on and get to bed I’ll see you later"

Reluctantly, I turned to walk back into the house Matilda chased afterto sneak into the house, but Jack stopped her Her big white paere covered in coldaround by the lake, and her fur was full of debris fro her clean before they went into the house, but I left hi up to his rooed after her, laughing and egging her on He was dirty and his clothes were getting ruined, but he didn’t notice at all because he was having too s like that could ht of hied o with me

In thekittens, Jack caave me a kiss I stirred a little in bed and invited him to join me, but he declined for reasons that remain a mystery I’m sure he told me, but as soon as the words were out of his ed to save all the kittens froood, I realized that one of the things that Jack had said to ht," not "see you in the oodbye," which had way too much finality in it for my taste

I raced downstairs to find the den, aka Jack’s current sleeping quarters, deserted, with all his blankets folded up neatly, and he never folded up blankets orin with Mae, but I didn’t want to disturb her

That leftback upstairs to check with Peter on the off-chance he knew son that Jack was gone Peter was gone, too, but I wasn’t even sure if he’d coone the second I opened my eyes I could always feel when he wasn’t around ot pulled painfully thin I couldn’t tell exactly where he was at or anything; I just knew that it wasn’t close by