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Guilt sucked

"I wouldn’t count hi sick is enough to stop hi about himat least not yet"

"Can I just say I wasn’t sure you’d have the balls to go through with it?" This was fro my shoulder from behind

I had to s me; there was a point there where I wasn’t sure I could do it either "Is that your way of saying thank you?"

Another squeeze, just a slight tightening, and then she collapsed backward against her seat "If that’s how you want to take it"

I was relieved To have Willow back, to be away from that place, and even a small part of me, a secretly terrible part of ent Truer Still, there was soh, I should probably banish any lingering concerns to the darkest corner of nore so at me Even when I was little, I’d alanted to knohy the sky was blue or birds flew south for the winterto the point that I’d driven my parents crazy because "I don’t know" or "because that’s just the way things are" were never good enough answers for me

"So that laband all that equipment," I started on a shaky voice, because maybe, for the first time, these were the kinds of answers I really didn’t want "What exactly are they hoping to gain? From us, I mean What is it they expect to findfrom whatever it is they plan to do to us?"

There was a hushed kind of silence The heavy kind that comes when no one wants to talk and you know it’s bad The worst kind of bad

It didn’t surprise me that Simon spoke up first "Look, Kyra, I planned to tell you this eventually" The deliberate way he said it caused a sour taste to flood the back of ht? There are ht we couldn’t handle?" I turned to the others, thinking ere in this together But as soon as I saw their faces, I kneas the only one out of the loop "Awesoht it was nice when Sinice about him "What was it that you all decided I was too delicate to know?"

I braced

"The experiments," Simon finally said

"Experi there in that one word

"That’s right," Sied when I just crossed my arms and waited for him to elaborate "The experiments I told you about, the ones that were done on you when you were taken"

I huggedaliens because even though I’d let go of otten any easier "The experied "I didn’t tell you everything"