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I chewed the inside ofto Griffin once more "And we’ll have more freedom?" I just wanted her confirmation one more time When she nodded, I took a deep breath "Fine, then I’m in too"

"How much farther?" I had to yell to be heard froiven me to tie my hair back barely contained it, and the hipped stray pieces aroundthe road in the open-air Jeep

With her s around, stinging her face She hollered over her shoulder while she drove, "Little town called Delta, about two hours from here"

I checked my watch; that would put us there soet back to camp before sunup, just as Simon had predicted

"Whatafter is one of us? How exactly does she get her intel?" I was fascinated by the process By the way they did things in this Returned world I lived in now

I assuhway of information, like all those crazy fileswhere they’d lived, where they’d last been seen, their favorite music, and if they’d ever returned at all

Prettythere was to know about the the seater seat "Depends This ti they had the boy in town," he called back to uess when they found hi with a friend back homewhich apparently was nowhere near Utah"

My palot sweaty and I rubbed the sensation, of being one place and then waking up in another It wasdisturbing, to say the least

Like a really, really bad case of déjà vu

"So, where was he frohts out here were froht have been beautiful, if only I hadn’t known that ere on our way to change sohts when he handedit, I assuotten her this police report as well It listed all the pertinent details about the boy and his disappearance:

Alex Walker, fifteen years old Frorand from their home in Tallahassee just two days earlier Since he had a history of running away, she’d told local police he’d probably run off again

Yet late this evening, Alex Walker had walked into a truck stop near the edge of Delta, Utah, and asked the waitress, and I quote: "What circle of hell is this place supposed to be?" When questioned further, he claiotten all the way from Tallahassee to Delta, or where he’d been for the past forty-eight hours

Forty-eight hoursthe exact a

The report said he was being held for observation at the Delta Medical Clinic, and his grandmother had been contacted