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“I’, and live happily ever after”

She looked down at Roger, only ht face for a few seconds before snorting with laughter

“Yeah, you’re right Withinto Frankenstein’s house of horrors,a horrible, nasty death”

Roger’s whiskers twitched

“You’re not talking me out of this,” she told the rat, who she considered her only friend “I’ to do it I’ve wanted to knohat’s behind those walls for years”

Gigi Reynolds stared up at the castle Dark Iray slate, and the surrounding area was devoid of any greenery until you reached the forest beyond, where she lay hidden It wasn’t really the thing of fairytales And yet she’d been obsessed by the castle and the people who lived in it for years

The Bjorn brothers

Funny nae people Rumors had circled in Oldstown about theet food? What did they look like? Didn’t they ever get lonely? And just how old were they?

“Ancient Maybe they’re dead Maybe that’s why no one’s seen theine it They’ve been dead for years, and that place has just been sitting there, priold or treasure”

And perhaps she could help herself to a little bit of that gold Just enough to fund her freedom

Roger squeaked

“Yeah, yeah, I kno did all those signs and boobytraps get there if they’re dead Maybe they only died recently Cooing to ht?”

Was it stealing if the people ned it were deceased? Okay, so Gigi knew hercitizen, but she lived in Oldstohich had the dubious pleasure of being the country’s most corrupt city It was a hotspot for cris

She should know Her brother headed the nastiest gang in the city Hence the reason she needed freedom

Her brother loved her in his oay, but he was built differently than other people She didn’t know if he was born that way or if he’d buried his es, rapists, and ive your little sister a hug

She snorted

Yeah, that wasn’t ever going to happen

That wasn’t to say he wasn’t protective of her—to the point of being s She had no freedom If she hadn’t found her mother’s diary and discovered the secret of the tunnels that lay under the huge wall that surrounded her brother’s criminal dynasty, she would never have been able to leave that dubious source of safety