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"I wasn’t lying," she shot back, dark eyes flashing "Those people areto right this country"

"People will knohat happened here," Cole pro toto help y, the right way to break the groups up and which surface-street routes to take up north

"Everyone good?" Cole asked the clusters of kids, sloorking his way toward the door His eyes juh to eat?"

There was a chorus of Yeah!s They were lying, of course I wondered if they thought the truth would disappoint hiain Even if you were to subtract Cole’s ability to char up its fur coat, he still would have won the like he cared

"I still want in on the crazy eights tourna at one of the Green boys as he passed "I’ for that crown, Sean Watch yourself"

He snorted "Keep trying, old man Let’s see if you can keep up"

Cole h the heart "A bunch of whippersnappers! I could teach you a thing or two about winning--"

"Or what the rest of us would call cheating," Liam called over from where he, Chubs, and Vida had posted the quietly with Nico and another Green My eyes darted from their backs to their hands to their feet Where is it?

"Which is why he always lost," Cole told the others with a wink

The agents had rated to the other side of the room to be closer to the map to, I assu to tell thenored her

Where’s the backpack? I circled back around the kids ere blocking uson’s shoulder The terees And I knew, just like that, if I wanted the cure’s research into have to force them--I would need to compel each and every one of them to hand it over

Cole reached the door to the hall and tilted his head I waited a ents noticed, they just didn’t care I’d given theh, hadn’t I?

The hallas still a good ten degrees cooler than the rooh the open door, I could barely see a few feet in front of rabbed ht, but this seemed like a conversation best suited for shadows Stripped of everything but its concrete and colorful piping, this building was like a tomb--even the air inside was stale