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Her breath caught, so “So, these Aruh that trace?”

“Yes”

“Oh, God” She placed a hand over her heart

“Your trace is very faint I don’t think it will be any problem” Relief flooded her, and he see this, but you can’t tell anyone about this, Bethany No oneshe surprised him “Dawson, no one would believe h There have been some who have discovered the truth Who have seen a Luxen in his or her true for that shiny thing again, like there was a white light behind the pupils She guessed there was “Those people disappeared”

Ice covered the knots in her stomach “What do you mean?”

“The DOD takes care of them How? I don’t know But their main job is to cloak us in secrecy and make sure no one threatens that objective”

Kind of scary to think of that, but she also understood why Hu around Aliens who could change identities, y

And on the flip side, a hue wielded a lot of power, didn’t she? Money would probably be involved, if one went public with details

Bethany shook her head It wouldn’t be right, though, for several reasons “I won’t say anything, Dawson I know pro I won’t doesn’t mean much, but…I really don’t want to disappear, and I don’t want to get you in trouble”

He exhaled loudly “I do believe you Thank you”

Heartbeats passed in silence as she studied his downturned face God, he was beautiful His features perfectly pieced together Should’ve known son DNA was somehow involved Then she remembered their first phone call and how he’d said he was fro was he hadn’t lied to her then

Bethany really didn’t knohat to say or think Obviously she wasn’t crazy Daas…an alien, but she had a hard ti it Not that she didn’t accept what he was, but as she stared at him, all she saas Dawson

Daho spoke to her the first day here, who followed her out into the hallway, and who skipped class to spend lunch with her Daho devoted hours on the phone with her, talking until they both fell asleep like goobers

All she really saas Dawson—a boy she was falling for

He’d stayed still while she’d been staring at hi in his jaw

Bethany rose to her knees suddenly “Can I touch you? When you’re in your…true for with a mixture of hope and panic, relief and sorrow There was also this oddly tender look on his face that pulled at her heart, made it thump harder “Why would you want to?”

She bit her lip, wondering if she’d so in their true form uncouth? He had jumped away from her awfully fast “I don’t know I just do”

Shock splashed across his face “You really want to?”

Holding her breath, she nodded