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"I won’t," Ivy repeated, her voice louder this tilanced back at me "For what it’s worth," she said, "you can tell Vivvie that I wouldn’t pay much attention to that article"

Bodie had said that there were two reasons for leaking a story like that--to help Pierce’s case or to hurt hi to track down the source?" I asked Ivy

I’ this conversation with you I could practically see her bite back those words Instead, she lifted her chin slightly "Trustout"

CHAPTER 46

By the end of the week, a slew of opinion articles had come out in Pierce’s favor In World Issues, we had to watch people debate his merits on TV

And with each day, I became more convinced that whoever had leaked that article had done it to help Pierce’s chances, not hurt the in my ears as I watched Henry Marquette take a seat across the courtyard at lunch He hadn’t spoken to lance at ?" Vivvie asked me It was just the two of us at our table--the way it had been before all this had started

"I don’t know" I wished I had so to tell her, but Ivy had spent the past few days locked in her office, going over files she’d brought back from Arizona I had no idea what kind of files they were All I kneas that she’d brought boxes of theht in " Vivvie’s voice was quiet, but it vibrated with an intensity of eeration "I need for us to do so," Vivvie insisted "Talk to your sister again, or set up a "

It had been four days since her father’s funeral A week since he’d killed himself Eleven days since she’d told me what she’d overheard

SoNothing except the old Because of that article in the Post

Because of sorew round "Okay what?"

"Okay," I said "I have so we can do"

Step one: Waylay Emilia Rhodes on her way to class

"Oh," she said "It’s you Turned anyone’s twin even more delinquent than usual lately?"

I took that as a cue that I didn’t need to bother with niceties "The day you told us that Vivvie’s dad had been fired, you mentioned that you’d heard it froton Post"

Eet to the point

I obliged "Which freshman?"

Step two: Make nice with the freshman

Vivvie took the lead on step two She was better at being nice than I was Eventually, she dropped my name, and the freshman was all too happy to call in a favor with "Uncle Carson"--the man who’d written the article--in order to put herself in Tess Kendrick’s good graces