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“Not that I know of Does this mean you think the note ritten to her?”

“It’s just a thought”

She stood behind hietting a better look at the note “But if this note ritten to her, I’ave someone tea who must have known her when she was a child? It just doesn’t make any sense”

“Which is why I think it’s a cipher”

She picked up the note and stared at it, wishing soht the chance of this note being some sort of cipher was a bit far-fetched”

“And now?”

“I’m still skeptical but the mix of random upper and lowercase letters is odd And then there’s the strange wording I old Isn’t that a bit of overkill?”

“What do you think?”

She moved around the couch and sat down “Maybe Cosmo is some sort of code name”

Grayson s a lot of 007 movies?”

She shrugged, not really in a jovialin Orfrustration “I just want to know the truth I want to know if there’s ed Maybe unraveling what exactly happened to her and who killed her will help my father I don’t think he’s ever really recovered from the event He’s alorried about me and my brother”

“And you think that if you can figure out what happened then your family can have a normal life?”

“Maybe not normal precisely I’ less stressful than e have now My father is alorried, checking in every evening And my brother, well, he says that he’s fine, but he’s never home He’s always on a new adventure Last I heard he was in Paris, visiting an old friend of ours It seems like my family is never in the same place at the same time”

Grayson reached out and took her hand in his “I’s I knohat it is to live without any faet pretty lonely, especially around the holidays”

“Why don’t you try talking to your family?”