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Hours had passed, and I’d spent

I was surprised, then, when Griffin stepped beneath the dull lights of the hallway I hadn’t even realized there’d been a change of shift until she nodded to the t guards, indicating for theood little minions, they did as they were told

"What do you want?" I didn’t bother getting up, just stayed where I ithon my stomach

"We need to talk," she said, her voice even "We have a proble my voice with as ot everything under control"

She waited a second before adding, "It’s Tyler"

She had me I couldn’t pretend not to care, and I sat up

"That’s what I thought" I wanted to wipe the s look off her face, but this was about Tyler, and I bit back the Bitch hovering on the tip of ue "I think we both knohy I’m here," she continued, her voice ay lower now, like she didn’t want even her own guards to hear what she’d come here to say "I think he’slike you"

I went to the bars, to where she was clutching the was he gone?" I asked, trying to piece it together

Her dark eyes searched ure it out for hiht Division chatter put his disappearance soo" I did the ht That hen he and ent Truman had vanished from Devil’s Hole "We picked him up some five days later--the day he said he was returned"

Five days, not five years

Still, that was three days past the forty-eight-hour hts, because she said, "I kneas too long, and at first I assuone through it--tend to lose track of tiht, I didn’t tell him how unusual that was" She didn’t say unheard of, because we both knew that wasn’t true; I was proof of that "And thenwhen he could heal the way he could, I assu more to him More than they’d done to the rest of us It just never occurred to me"

I nodded because I knehat sheher father had told her it would be a stretch to assume Tyler had been successfully Replaced

I could hardly believe it myself

"His memory," I whispered "Do you think that’s a side effect? Maybe they sent him back too soon?"