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"Selena'sfaed finally

The thuasped She sloithdrew her thulistening with sudden tears Selena remembered the word for that look

Longing Selena understood longing It hat she felt for Ian

Andrew laughed "Yes, I rather suppose we are your family"

Selena tried to draw her gaze away from Lara's, but she couldn't She saw such pain and fear and hope in

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the child's eyes For the first tireat and lonely house by the sea, she was not the only lost soul

Chapter Eight

Evening fell in silken folds of lavender across the sky In the distance, a tall, white church spire caught the last rays of the setting sun Newly blossoravel road, their leaf-studded lie's roof

Ian sat deep in the squabbed burgundy velvet seat, his knees tucked carefully against the door A cloudy pane of glass was histo the outside world, and through tired eyes, he watched the scenery crawl past The toas an endless stream of s grass, their flanks guarded by a battalion of evergreen trees In the center of it all sat a glassy blue lake, the type of lake that cried out for ice-skaters in winter and picnics in the hot days of summer

The carriage hit a pothole and quaked to the right Ian slammed into the wall, and Johann's knees rammed into his in an electric touch

The ies hit Ian before he had recovered his balance A pine coffin, bare and unadorneda pale, dark-haired wo Johann's na with a click

And this time there was more than just the concrete , an emotion so all-

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