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“I know that,” he said “I just don’t kno to convince her”

Margot stepped into the roo in her lap “When she first caot said, “she was like one of those cats you bring home from the humane society She hid for about teeks For a few days I left out food Then, once I discovered where she was hiding—in the closet behind all the coats—I opened the door and sat outside in the hall I didn’t say anything, I just sat there and read Day after day, trying to let her know that I was here That I was always going to be here”

“What happened?” Matt whispered, feeling his heart break for that girl

“One night, I felt a cold little body curled up next to mine in my bed”

Matt took a deep ragged breath

“She’s been left a lot,” Margot said “Her mother, her brothers, Katie’s father”

“I want to come back,” he said, defensively “I want to be with her, but there are—”

Margot held up her hand “I understand that,” she said “You need to make her understand that”

Matt stood “I love her,” he said

“That’s a start,” Margot answered and Matt took off for the stairs and Savannah’s room

SAVANNAH WAS STARING at the ceiling

She was one of those stupid wo Ridiculous

The only problem was she couldn’t seem to stop Her body was so heavy, her head so full of Matt, there wasn’t rooy was concentrated on keeping a grip on her heart

Suddenly, the door to her room pushed open and she sat up to find Matt, storreen eyes widened as he took in the rooiant four-poster bed and the canopy

“What are you doing here?” she snapped, pitching herself off the bed

“I’ed grace and y God, he was so attractive her body hurt anting hie of the canopy “—when I first got here Ifor any clue of the gems”

“And?”