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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not really knowing, now, whether or not

know. I think I do

the pocket of her jeans. “I

a little note, pushing it into my hand. I stare

  1. it.

to get this to

up at her

other dad.” My eyes search

“I don’t know if I can – that’s so dangerous. If Kent

she says, true pleading in her eyes. “I know what I’m asking you to do, and I wouldn’t ask it if it wasn’t

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

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if you want to flush the note down the toilet, Fay, I understand. I’ll be disappointed,” she gives

Please.”

hands together like

the door.

just tell me what’s

her hand on

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