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With her lightning reflexes, she seized his ar she'd probably broken so He kneed her in the face, but she kept hold of his arly little effort, she flipped hi back to her feet

Her vision cleared enough for her to see hiet back to his feet, she kicked him in the ribs Then she turned him over She planted her knees on his chest to keep hiasped for air

"It's over, Uncle Hector," she said "I'o to the o to jail"

"Then ill you do? You're just a kid They won't let you stay together"

"We'll figure so out" She didn't knohat she would do yet, but she would think of so "I'm sorry it has to be this way, Uncle Hector"

He s from his mouth "I ain't your uncle, kid"

"What? But I'm Lucinda, your niece"

"Lucinda is dead"

"You said-"

"They found her body a fewSo life in the pen now"

"No, you're lying You recognized me when you woke up"

"Yeah, I did think you were her at first Thought one to Heaven, not that I ever deserved to go there But I ca? Why?"

"This," he said Sa, so distracted, she didn't see hilass bottle Saht a moment before the water hit her in the face

She fell off of Mr Delgado, onto the beach For athe familiar sense of disorientation as the world seemed to swell Her mother's clothes became even looser on her as she shrank The boobies Helena and the boys had ain

There wasn't enough in the vial to irl like Prudence Her instincts told her to get up, but before she could, Mr Delgado kicked her in the roan and then flattened on the beach

"You stupid brat," he growled He punctuated it with another kick "It's a good thing I already put soet off this rock, the better"