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“I’m not sorry for what I did,” she said, a note of defiance creeping into her voice “Heresponsibility, the taking of a life”
“Yes But given the saain”
Rane sel and the courage of a o home,” Savanah said
“Indeed?”
She squared her shoulders and lifted her chin “Yes, to my mother’s books, so I can pack them”
“I see And if I think you and the books should stay here?”
“I’er a secret”
“I haven’t done a very good job of protecting you, have I?”
“I didn’t say that”
He regarded her auntil it huh “I’ll take you home, if that’s what you want”
“Will you stay with me for a while?”
“Stay, as in stay in the city, or…?”
“Stay with me, at my house, only if you want to, of course”
“What do you think?”
A flush rose in her cheeks “I’,” she clarified before he could say anything “I could use your help”
“Are you sure you want to teaether so far That Wereould have killed ed, reluctant to adh he kneas true “He was after the books, wasn’t he?”
Savanah nodded Maybe Rane was right Maybe she should just burn the da the horror of the afternoon, reliving her fear, not only for her own life, but for Rane’s as well