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She gives olden shade I know she still uses like azes of manyfor hi Wait I know you’re angry with et it"

"I don’t want to interrupt your lances back toward the door to the basement, the one part of this house I’ve never been invited to see For years, it’s only been ato the place she holds her secret s The sahed at behind her back

Now thatquite as loud

"You should be careful," I warn her "I don’t knohat you all get up to down thereor why you need the bodies you don’t send on to the et all of that" She gives me a tense smile that fans fine lines out around her eyes "It’sto worry yourself about"

"I never said I orried"

She presses her hands to my cheeks and looks deep intoto do the right thing, to convert me from my ays"

The subject of my father’s always been a sore point Mostly because she’s toldabout him other than the fact he’d left her I wasn’t even sure if he knew I existed

"Not like Ja

She hates Thoot her pregnant and discarded her He already had a wife and two ations When she threatened to go public with James and tell everyone that he was Thomas’s child, he’d ot out about his bastard He would never acknowledge Jaet any money froerous Kara never doubted he’d follow through with his threats

My ed since those days Now she took money for other people’s bodiesbut not her own At least, not to o of the hate you have for him" This isn’t the first ti It’s consu in her eyes sparks "Perhaps it’s finally tiet what they deserve"

A shiver goes down my spine when she talks like this because I know she means every word

"I love you, Ada that I try to return "You’re the only one who cares if I live or die"

"Jaant, selfish, a user fro, ant, selfish infant?"