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"How?"

"We ravel, giving me plenty of time to make it around to the other side of the car He rose slowly, holding his hands up in surrender "All right, all right You win"

"Ian, give ht with you for sixteen years You think I don’t know that the fake out is your go-to her "Look, even if Mom and Dad do find out, that just means we’re even I have to deal with the fallout of youaround with Cubby, and you have to deal with the fallout of iveabout Cubby," I said "And you being embarrassed in front of your friends is not a fallout"

Rowan’s voice floated out the"Is Cubby your oldest brother?"

"No," Ian said shortly, his eyes on ht Walt" Rowan cracked his door and got out, clutching a juuys As entertaining as this is, we all know you can’t keep this up forever So why don’t we head inside and grab a real breakfast?" He shook his Sugar Puffs winningly at Ian "Or soer if you need it A pint? We could talk it through"

I shookto talk about--"

In a flash of dark hair, Ian slid across the front of the car and clutchedto wrench the keys fro allht h we’d once maintained this position for eleven and a half minutes, and that was over an Oreo Walter had tiainst the car, popping a handful of cereal into his le-child families" He crunched for a moment, then sed "Okay, here’s a wild idea Addie, what if you relinquish the keys to ood idea," Ian said, leveraging his shoulder against ed directly under Ian’s rib cage

"Addie," Ian groaned "That hurt"

"That one’s nature ar Puffs into the air "The first site is not too far from here Less than an hour Addie, you can co Then you two can come up with a solid plan to avoid detection by your parents, and then Addie can be on her way No death matches involved "

First site Did that mean there was more than one? Curiosity bit intoquestions Not about a trip Ian was not taking And especially not when every bit ofpossession of Rowan’s keys "We can’t riska heavy e Lina is not an option"

"Who’s Lina?"

"My best friend"

"Oh, duh The one who moved to Italy"

"What else did Ian tell you aboutdown on the keys

"Don’t flatter yourself," Ian said "Believe it or not, we don’t spend all our ti about you"

I spun away and tried to run for the hotel, but Ian executed a half tackle, and the keys flew out of ravel I scraot there first

He ran for the car "Let’s go!" he shouted, tossing the keys to Rowan, but Rowan didn’t follow Instead, he carefully placed the keys in his pocket, surveying me seriously "Just coht shot from the Burren We’ll make it in plenty of time"