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"No--no, not at all," I said

"What’s wrong?" He took a step toward me "Your voice sounds--"

"I just realized it’s alh the plan for the cao"

His brow creased but he stood back froht my shoulder and turned me back toward him A droplet of water worked its way down fro out a trail on his cheek, over his jan his throat as he sed hard I couldn’t e as he leaned forward and pressed a sweet kiss totothe Greens ere rearranging the desks out of their usual, tidy rows and dragging theainst the walls so they lined the roo at one of the desks along the rear wall, his back toward us Everyone else faced the old, marker-stained white board and the map of the United States taped up next to it on the opposite end of the roo in s--city names?--off a printed list

"Nicely done with the brain voodoo, boo," she said when she saw us "Consider your ass forgiven for not colanced back over his shoulder, one hand still splayed out on the roups up, we have four good options There are at least ten kids in Wyo alone"

"If they haven’t already moved on," Liam pointed out

"Noho’s Mr Doom and Gloom?" Chubs shot back

Whatever Lia into the rooy, a visibly pleased Senator Cruz at his side The rare glimpse of happiness on her features hta sed to secure some supplies for us

Zu, Hina, and Kylie were the last to appear in the doorway, and carefully h the field of kids on the floor to coether "So Thank y’all for all of your ingenious planning and sche, and I think we’ve landed on a winning strategy"

He walked back toward the white boards, picking up one of the markers A blue line was dran the middle of the board At the top of one half he wrote, THURMOND On the other, OASIS