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Brook tuggedher best to afford us so farther underground
"I didn’t know," she whispered, keeping her voice low and glancing around to make certain no one could hear us "I never et hurt Especially not Aron" Her dark eyes were sad, filled with regret
"I know," I assured her, seeing her differently now She was no longer the carefree girl I’d known in ined she’d become Instead she was passionate, devoted, dedicated And, still, et hurt if there’s a war, don’t you?"
"We don’t want that, Charlie We don’t want to fight, but we can’t just go on like this We deserve to choose ant to be, ant to be"
I didn’t disagree with her reasons, but I didn’t kno to respond, so I didn’t try "What about ht words were difficult to find "How long did you knoho I was?"
"We only just figured it out Your father did an excellent job of keeping his identity hidden In fact, your parents weren’t the only ones being watche K behildhodthere are other fairl--"
"Sydney," I corrected her
Brook shrugged, as if knowing her naht Sydney came into the restaurant and you spilled water on her, I overheard your parents arguing in the kitchen Your father orried that soht discover the truth if you weren’t careful He was afraid the queen would learn you existed I was pretty sure then After that it was just a h to Xander so he could decide if you fit the description"
"The club?" I asked, understanding dawning
Brook nodded, the trace of a glint in her eye "But we left too early that first night Xander wasn’t there yet" No wonder she’d been so ht, insisting it was tih, when you asked if we could go back" She nudgedabout boys, or school, or anything other than ere really discussing "But even then I had no idea what your gift hat power it was that you were hiding" She srin "I wish you would have told s we could have done with that little trick!"
"You’re crazy!" I nudged her back, sht tihter, not while ht at the park? Did you knoas going to happen?"
Brook’s head dropped sha was up I was told that I needed to keep an eye on you I figured the best way to do that was for us to go out" She glanced sideways at me "I didn’t mean to lose you in the park When the sirens went off, I looked everywhere Eventually, I figured you must have taken off withhim"