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

to know. I think I do but-

jeans. “I need you

produces a little note, pushing it into

  1. it.

need you to get this to your dad,”

up at

says, pursing her lips sarcastically. “I want you to take it to David, your other dad.” My eyes search her face as she hits me, jokingly, upside the head. “Don’t be stupid. Of course

widening. “I don’t know if I can –

know what I’m asking you to do, and I wouldn’t ask it if it wasn’t so important. I promise you,

bite my lip, considering it. Fiona backs away

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with you,” she says. “And if you want to flush the note down the toilet, Fay, I understand. I’ll be disappointed,” she gives me a stern, sisterly

Please.”

like she’s praying and backs

the door.

“please, stay – just tell me

to go baby,” she whispers, her hand on the knob now. “He

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