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"I was hoping you’d have so about," Cole said as we headed down the hallway "I’ll look into it"

I was headed to the large former rec room just to the left of the stairwell for dinner, but he was clearly escaping into Alban’s old office I caught his wrist as he brushed byto firht," he said "We’re still waiting on twoa few calls to old supply contacts Outfitting this place has to be priority nu if we can’t even get the kids clean clothes and a fear about how they would stage a ca soon enough"

I returned his wave as he crossed through the doors connecting the hallways, and followed the shetti sauce into the rec roo tables and chairs in neat lines, brought in a sents had oh-so-graciously left behind Next to that were two large pots with serving utensils, and a dismally small stack of paper plates

It had takenitself into so that seemed kind ofclean The silent downstairs halls were punctuated by the banging of washers and dryers, which see at all hours of the day I finally saw that the floor tiles were more white than yellow And when I went to splash some water on my face in the bathroo across ent It was almosthomey

I passed by two sheets of paper tacked onto the door, stopping to exa immediately as Liam’s, but it took me a moment to understand what the charts were, why there were stubs of pencils attached to each one with string They were sign-up sheets, divided up by chore: laundry, cleaning, organizing, food preparation Under each of these headers were the names of kids Everyone had to help, but they could choose their chore That was Lia at their own table, heads bent close together Vida sawback and casually picking up her fork again I finished spooning so on?" I asked, taking the open seat and turning to poke Liam’s side "I saw the chore charts--you should have told lanced up fro of nuht You’re busy with other things"

Other things that were, unfortunately, not spending time with hi over to get a better look at what he was doing

He shot ure out when, exactly, we’re going to run out of food I’ve been looking at the nearby towns, and I think I have a fee could hit for supplies where there’s mini it," I said

He snorted

Soerous to leave the Ranch right now He’ll take care of it"

Zu turned to study me, her expression troubled I pointed to her plate of pasta, but she still didn’t touch it

"We could go out," Liam pressed "You, me, Vi Hell, I’d bet Kylie would coripping his forear her head, eyes wide He wasn’t allowed to go She wasn’t going to let hi hiht there with her I wanted him here, where he was tucked safely out of harm’s way

"I’ve done it a hundred tiot you like this?"

She released his ar back in a way that was very unlike her I started to ask her rong, only to be interrupted by a frustrated groan

"Oh, neverhis plate away from him There was more sauce down the front of his shirt than there was left on his plate It turns out it’s fairly difficult to get a fork full of slippery noodles up to yourthe eye part of hand-eye coordination

When Vida didn’t go in for the kill on that one, I shot a sideways glance in her direction The whole roohter Which

"You shouldn’t have thrown the old lenses away They weren’t cracked that badly"

"What was I supposed to do?" Chubs snapped "Tape thenifying glass?"

"Wouldn’t that have been better than sulking around and blindly buone off earlier and pitched them into a trash can in hopeless frustration I’d fished the rooain "We can ask Cole about getting glasses added to our supplies list," I said

"The lenses are prescription," Chubs said sharply "I don’t have the inforlasses aren’t strong enough, and they give --"