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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shut, not really knowing, now,

know. I think

baby,” she says, reaching into the pocket of her jeans. “I need you to

note, pushing it into my

  1. it.

this to your dad,” she says

Alden?” I ask, looking up

take it to David, your other dad.” My eyes search her

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

her eyes. “I know what I’m asking you to do, and I wouldn’t ask it if

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

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

Please.”

puts her hands together like she’s

the door.

stay – just tell me

to go baby,” she whispers, her

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