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w seconds, my thumb hovering over the
r one of Jenna's boring tricks.
me Edgewood was a quiet old industrial town. The economy
on that my "biological parents" were
I wondered how I should start. Hi, I'm you
too a
ited the highway a
ny shops on both sides of the street were closed, and the few pe
he glamorous, affluent nei
west side of town, an old com
ped in front
The lawn in the yard hadn't been mowed in a lon
luggage. He gave me a sympathetic look, as if he wanted t
took a deep breath, a
an who looked to be in her fifties with graying h
her eyes filled with ex
entle and harmless. "Is this the Kowalski reside
n's body visibly stiffened
hen to my lips. Her expression changed from wary to sho
le; she took a half-step ba
handle of my s
se, holding a wrench, wearing oil-stained
me, and the wrench in his h
stammered, unable to fo
Or rather, the
pulled me inside, and quickly clos
was simple and old, and the
at a loss, their shoulders hun
y suitcase aside and looked at them directly. "Jeffry
erlyn's body trembled violently. She sudde
face full of pain and str
f wanting to say somethin
more desperate tha
a steady, powerful knock s
in this dilapidated cottage. The three of us w
n expensive sui
straight at me, his chest rising and fa
syn Montgomery, I've
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