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I’d been wrong Everything wasn’t okay, and Griffin didn’t get it The nod had been a signal, all right, but not for iants, who moved to stand on either side ofsoldiers stayed on their toes, eyeballing Thoilantly

Jett, apparently, was not a threat

Simon didn’t seem concerned that he was outmanned or outclassed He jumped to his feet, his face red "What the hell is this?" He shot daggers at Griffin, and then to Thom, who stared at him blankly

"I’uys--a hulk of a dude--snatched e for hiun, the nose of it aiainst it

It wasn’t ai, places that could heal, but at his heart, and I doubted the gun would be firing beanbags

"Siot to his feet too Thom stayed where he was, his hands in the air

I had no idea as happening, but whatever Griffin was up to, it wasn’t worth letting any of theet hurt, or worse, killed I turned back to Griffin "Leave theether "They were never in it No one was This is about you, and only you" She turned her back on uys ere on each side ofcell And don’t take your eyes off her"

Si, at Griffin when his voice finally faded to oblivion

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

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The word --a mannequin or one of those wax statues you can barely tell apart from the real celebrities they’re fashioned after Like Wax Elvis or Wax Marilyn Monroe or Wax Lady Gaga

Maybe I was Wax Kyra

Except that I could eat and breathe and think And feel I knew because no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t buy into this crazy theory aboutthrough o of even now The ones of my dad and Tyler and my mom and Cat, and even Austin I couldn’tto this body, a body that wasn’t really my own

They felt real They felt real all the way to rained in every molecule, every cell, every breath I took