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He headed for the door There was no way he’d be able to go to sleep anytime soon He ide awake and he had a decision to make: cut his losses and leave Mirraccino as soon as possible or stay and try to make this up to Annabelle

Deciding to burn off soy, he headed for the beach The sand was highlighted byHis thoughts were solely on Annabelle

He started walking aimlessly He had to work all of the frustration out of his system so that he could think clearly He didn’t kno far he’d walked when he finally stopped

He’d known the truth before he’d even set off on this stroll—he wasn’t going anywhere At least not yet He had tooto judging at the festival But he knew those were just excuses He wanted to stay and ht with Annabelle At this point, he had to wonder if that was even possible

By the time Grayson returned to his suite, his body was exhausted After a cool shower, he stretched out on the king-size bed He closed his eyes, but all he saas Annabelle’s face with that hurt expression that sliced right through him He tossed and turned, but he couldn’t find any solace or drift off to sleep

He turned on the bedside light and reached for his phone Annabelle may have taken all of the paper copies of the note with her, but she’d forgotten that he still had a photo of it on his phone He pulled it up and stared at it for a moment

For being a genius, he sure hadn’t displayedthe secrets of this note What was up with that? He was usually very good at this type of thing And then the answer came to him He hadn’t wanted to solve thean excuse to spend time with Annabelle

But now that he’d gone and ruined all of that, there was no reason for him not to finish it Perhaps it could be so After all, he wanted Annabelle to find the truth about herher the answers she craved

He stared at theit was more obvious than he’d first surmised

He read it again Tea is my Gold

Could that mean T equaled G?

Grayson retrieved his co up a spreadsheet to imitate a cipher wheel In the end, he deters were red herrings

He set the cipher wheel with T equals G The other sentence in the e referenced the first and forth After trial and error, he decided that it was referring to the first letter in the first and fourth words

In the end, he ended up with: SUNDIAL FIVE TWO

Grayson went over theHe stared at the ht