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She just nodded, keeping her eyes on the path ahead of us

Even for an angel, being broken and then healed again had to be a traumatic experience I’d planned to dislike her forever, especially due to her immediate connection with Bishop, but I found I couldn’t after what had happened

I wasn’t saying I liked her, but despising her for being perfect, blonde and beautiful wasn’t a good enough reason for absolute and immediate dismissal

I wasn’t positive, but I was pretty sure Bishop followed us back tobefore about hiel

Chapter 7

So ht, it was hard to believe it was only a little after nine o’clock e finally arrived at the salow I shared with ht of the fa ith me

I’d lived here all o, it was me, my mother and my father Since the separation, it was just land now I only saw him rarely Even the emails had started to come with less frequency than they used to

It would make me sad if I let myself think about it tooat the end of the driveway My ht Miracles happen

Cassandra had been very quiet the rest of the way here, as if lost in her thoughts Her expression revealed nothing about how she felt about having her back broken by a grayand now voluntarily sharing a house with another one

In the silence, I’d found it iray’s victier, the next feeling your life fading away to nothing A kiss of death

She didn’t have a chance

I sed past the thick lu else I’d decided to tell my mother that Cassandra was one of one for a few days, and she was afraid to be alone

Not perfect, but it would do My s without asking tooher warily as she brushed pastit for a future report The ba by the front door The fraer included my father