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Time to suck it up, princess “Thanks, that’s really nice of you”

“Great Why don’t you hang out in the living rooet this mess cleaned up?”

Chicken that she was, she wanted to hug hi her an out to escape his bedroom Instead, she skedaddled away from the temptations he offered—it took a little effort, but she did it—and strode into the front rooe TV and a orn couch She whipped out her cell phone and punched in the number she knew by heart

“How’stoday?” Henry’s voice immediately calmed her riled nerves

She sank down into the dark blue couch “If I tell you the truth, do you promise to sit on Anton until he calms down?”

“You know I’d be sitting on hiue before that happened You better just spill it”

For a second she considered lying to protect her fathers from the mess her life had dissolved into They’d done so much for her, and she’d spent every day since her adoption day trying not to disappoint them or be the center of any kind of drama She owed the safely out of the spotlight was over

“Someone broke into my apartment,” she confessed

“Oh my God, are you okay?”

“Yeah, Tony and I were at The Darling House when it happened They only tookelse is still there”

His voice lowered back to its nor from your apartment”

“No way We relocated to Tony’s in Waterberg”

“Why not come here? You can stay in your old room We’ll make s’mores and watch Casablanca”

Her throat closed up and the cell slipped in her cla she wanted to do, but she couldn’t chicken out of telling therip on the phone, she braced herself

“Whoever is behind all this wants to hurt h-Heeled Wonder, butto lash out at everyone I love The best way to keep you safe until we figure it out is for h-Heeled Wonderwouldn’t reflect badly on you I didn’t ever want to cause trouble for you, not after all you’ve done for me and Anya”