Chapter 79

Tears start in my eyes now. I open my mouth to speak but she interrupts me again.

“Don’t do that, little cousin,” she says, giving me a broad smile, wincing when it pulls at the cut on her lip. “I’m all right – just like I said – I’m getting out of here.”

“So that’s real?” I ask, wiping the tears from beneath my eyes. “You’re really my cousin?”

“Sure,” she says, putting a hand on my cheek. “I knew you the instant I saw you in that kitchen downstairs – knew you were our little baby Fay.”

I bite my lip against my emotions then, struggling to keep from crying. My cousin here, all this time, taking care of me and I didn’t know.

“But he…he didn’t know?” I ask.

She shakes her head at me.

“Were you – were you spy-”

“Don’t ask questions, Fay,” she says seriously. “That you don’t

want to know the answer to.”

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really knowing, now, whether or

I think I

into the pocket of her jeans. “I need you to do something

note, pushing it into my

  1. it.

this to your dad,” she

up at

you to take it to David, your other dad.” My eyes search her face as she hits me, jokingly, upside

say, my eyes widening. “I don’t know if I can – that’s so

I wouldn’t ask it if it wasn’t so important.

considering it. Fiona backs away from me, leaving the note in my hand.

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says. “And if you want to flush the note down the toilet, Fay, I

Please.”

together like she’s praying and

the door.

“please, stay – just tell me

baby,” she whispers, her hand

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