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“No,” she said, shaking her head “I’reat job”

Daht he was His hands were a bloody mess, his back felt broken at the end of the day and he had the sneaking suspicion he’d lost about five pounds

Savannah see so Four days of silence and noith this fire in her eyes, her hands curling in the red hair of her rascal daughter—he found hi her around

She was like a bright spark against a black sky

Her eyes flickered over his face, he could al becaers twitched with a sudden wild iht piece of it that had fallen over her shoulder and glowed in the sunlight

“Just don’t teach ames,” she said

Then the one

Katie grinned and waved at him over her shoulder and his jaw nearly dropped

Suckered They’d all been suckered by Katie He turned to pick up his tools, only to find Margot standing in the broken sunlight A ghost in white linen and dia of coffee She carried a folded newspaper under her arm like she was a stockbroker off to the office

“You’re a shark,” she said, her eyes sharper than a knife “Aren’t you?”

Matt shook his head, but Margot grinned anyway, a Mona Lisa curl to her lip that he couldn’t read He didn’t knohat any of this meant; he felt like he’d slipped down the rabbit hole

“Co it sound like an iht We’ll see whether you’re a shark or not” She looked hi inside

“IT’S LATE, KATIE,” Savannahit away fro, dao to sleep in ain?”