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"I orried he wouldn’t accept Harry’s help," Liam continued "The two of them have knocked heads since day one"

"Why is that?" I asked If he hated his biological father the way I knew he did, then why push back so hard against Harry?

He shrugged "Cole used to act out a lot ere kids, and Mo that happened with our bio dad, so Harry had to do it And you know, he’s a great, loving, super funny guy, but he can be strict He spent years in thetold what to do," I finished That, and I was sure that once the change ca abilities he had to fight to control, he spentfound out I sed hard at the thought, unable to speak If he’d just tell Lia to make sense, but I don’t know that Cole ever let himself trust Harry He remembers more of what it was like when our father was around, and he feels protective of Mo for Harry to let us down To hurt us And Harry never would I think he joined the League just to spite Harry, actually"

"Maybe working together noill help Cole learn to trust hi For the record, I hope so too" Lia back "All right I’htest any he wasn’t either, not really I kissed the scar at the corner of his lips, runningthem in his hair His pale blue eyes seemed to darken as he leaned down to hed again

Liaar under his breath as he pulled back, his face flushed and his eyes a bit too wild "Yeah?"

It was the girl who’d been working at the table--she was a Blue who’d coroup Elizabeth That was her name Liza

"I finished, but I’ht look more like a white banana?" She held up a black hel one side hat looked to my eye like a crescent reat," he said

"Well you knohat it’s supposed to be, but what if she can’t?" Liza said

"She?" I repeated

"Our contact," Liao to pick up supplies, she wanted so a car or truck?" I asked "Not the bike?"

He hesitated, standing up and away from the bike I saw the effort of his concentration as he turned a s on the situation We’ll paint one of the doors of the trucks, too"

I don’t knohat it was, exactly The odd tone of his voice; the way Liza all but bolted, her face pale; how quick he was to takeus back toward the tunnel Every thought that passed through his head had always registered on Lia his carefully blank face, half-hidden by the shadows in the tunnel, I pieced together the realization