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She should have been there I closedup than because I was tired She should be here now

"Come on," Adam said "You need to rest" He steered me toward his bedroom, toward the bed Adae of the

Sleep never came

Every second, every et back Tiht, I started pacing: the bedrooht outside, the bathroo room, I paused in the doorway

Ada A note? A photograph? Whatever it was, he tucked it back into a drawer He looked up but didn’t seeto bet he didn’t see anything at all

CHAPTER 59

The next , I had a visitor Vivvie hovered in the doorway to Adao that she’d stood outside the door toto ask

I looked down at ry and red The raw skin looked how I felt

"I don’t want to be alone," I whispered The second those words left ing was a contact sport

"Are you okay? Last night you soundednot okay And before that, you were just gone Asher told me you went to the state dinner last weekend Henry said your sister was there, and that she took you away, but we couldn’t figure out where, and you weren’t answering your phone--"

"Vivvie"

Belatedly, she realized that she still hadto her sides

"Ivy sent ht press a blade to skin It hurt It was supposed to "She did it to protect me," I continued That hat Ivy did She didn’t ask ive ave up her own life for mine, and it wasn’t fair It wasn’t fair that she could do this to me, and it wasn’t fair that I was the one who had to live with the results

It wasn’t fair that I was here, and she wasn’t

"Ivy toldin the hallway"

It occurred toher--about Ivy, about Kostas, about what had happened to me--seemed insurmountable

"You don’t have to," Vivvie said quietly "If you’re not ready to talk about it yet, you don’t have to"

"Yes," I said "I do" I sed, then pressed on "Your father didn’t kill hi ere inexcept the truth about Ivy’s relation to h the walls He was yelling

For a split second, Vivvie and I sat there, frozen, and then our eyes met I slipped off the bed and out of the roo to, whoever wasn’t listening, I had a right to hear it