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My face was flushed, but soone very cold It had been half a second, no h to notice the way his eyes had darkened with soht have been frustration

Chubs was in the front seat folding and unfolding soain, al it

"Will you cut that out?" Liaitated "You’ll rip it"

Chubs stopped immediately "Can’t we just…try? Do we need the Slip Kid for this?"

"Do you really want to risk it?"

"Jack would have"

"Right, but Jack…" Liam’s voice trailed off "Let’s just play it safe He’ll help us e get there"

"If we get there," Chubs huffed

"Jack?" I didn’t realize I had said it aloud until Liam’s eyes looked up at me in the rearview mirror

"It’s none of your business," Chubs said, and left it at that

Lia "He was our friend--in our rooet in touch with his dad It’s one of the reasons we need to hit up the Slip Kid"

I nodded toward the sheet of paper "But before you guys broke out, he wrote a letter?"

"The three of us each did," Liam said "In case one of us backed out at the last minute and didn’t want to come or…didn’t make it out"

"Which Jack did not" Chubs’s voice could have cut steel Behind hieous colonial house passed in rapid-fire succession, their colors winking at us through her

"Anyway" Lia to put his letter in his dad’s hands We tried going to the address Jack gave us, but the house had been repossessed He left a note saying he was going to DC for work, but no new address or phone number That’s e need the Slip Kid’s help--to find where he is now"

"You can’t justmail for this exact reason about two years after you went to Thurovernment reads all, speaks all, and writes all They’ve crafted a lovely little story about hoe’re all being saved and reprogras at caet wind of the truth"