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“I’ll get it for you,” Adao back to bed”

When he’s gone, there’s a second of aard silence as I stand there with his ood son”

“I know” I rub a finger over ain If I’d had a chance to save her, I would have taken it too Even if itsomeone close to me

Adam returns with so behind hi her another shot soon, and then he tells her to rest

He returns to the living room, his hands shoved in his pockets “Elena—”

“Your mom,” I interrupt “She has cancer”

“Yeah” He stares at the floor “That’s why I took the cure But I was never working for Aether, I swear”

“Then who recruited you to steal the cure?”

“It was Lynne Aether never knew about it”

Lynne—so she was in on it the entire time A memory floats to the surface, froet it?” She wasn’t asking if we got evidence—she was asking if he got the cure

“Why didn’t you tellhs “I hated lying to you, but I couldn’t tell anyone aboutfor Aether and was somehow behind all of your deaths And I didn’t trust the others with the cure—especially once I found out what it did to people without cancer But I’m not a killer You must know that”