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I sobbed with relief when I opened the

The envelope shredded under ether so I didn’t lose the return address

He was okay

I ran up to my room and quickly wrote my own letter If I hurried, I could run to the post office and mail it before they closed for the day

Chapter Thirty-Six

Dear Roman,

I’m so happy to finally hear frory

Don’t be eive you false hope, because I’s will turn out, but she talked to her lawyer They are working on getting her approved as a foster parent, so you can live with her Wouldn’t that be a? You could come back to school And we’d see each other every day

I’ll be here waiting for you

All my love,

Juliet

Sadly, Juliet’s letter gave oing through the trouble onin e?

“Letter froirl?” my new roommate asked from the top bunk across from mine So far, we had the room to ourselves, but there were two ht place with us Griff was around e and seemed to have the same fuck-off-and-let-me-do-my-time-in-peace attitude I’d developed He wasn’t an orphan, but froht as well have been He’d already been at the Castle for a fewbrother role It annoyed me alave s

“Yeah,” I answered

“Nice” He held up his own sives a shit, right?”

He tore into an envelope and tugged out a piece of notebook paper with a 4x6 photo tucked inside Girlish writing in various shades of purple and pink filled the page

“You got your own girl writing you letters?” I asked

His face broke into a grin and he chuckled “Nah My best friend’s baby sister” He reached down, placing his hand next to his knee “Known her since she was little” He shook the neatly written page “She writes me letters like this when I’m home, too”

“They live far away?”

He laughed even harder “No I live right around the block fro for colorful pens” He waved the page at ain