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“A…beach party?” I say, cocking my head to the side as I study

the note.

“It’s about an hour away,” Kent says, watching me closely as I read. “Friends and family, apparently.”

I look up at Kent my eyebrow raised. “Did you…read my mail?”

He stares at me impassively, not needing to confirm. I study the envelope, wondering how the hell he re–sealed it, and then why

he bothered to reseal it…

“Fay,” Kent says sharply and I look up to see that he’s frustrated

with me.

As usual. “Are you going to go?”

I look back at the invitation and see, in particular, that it’s made

out to me. No mention of Kent or Daniel. Apparently, it’s a private

party.

“Am I…allowed to go?” I ask, looking back up at him.

Kent shrugs. “I’ll send you with my guards, of course. But there’s no real reason to refuse. Unless, of course, you don’t want to.

You’re not a caged pet, after all.”

Kent says the final words ruefully, but my lips crook into a smile,

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my lanugage from this morning. He

realize. He’s trying.

and then past him, walking down the hallway to where a man is waiting by the front door. “Åre you the

a little, which I

“Please tell

the handle of the door

deliver the reply.

father that we might be a few

then ventures a

him. “Yes,” I say, turning for the stairs. “My

I head up the stairs, I see Kent out of

Apparently, he

the car. “I can’t believe

hate this kind of

I say, nudging him with my

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a barbeque. At the beach.”

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just scowls at me and I laugh at him, smoothing out the wrinkles in my blue–and–white striped

white crop–top.

Kent has

with a wide–brimmed straw hat. Now that

know he selects my clothes

has immaculate

really do look pretty,” Daniel says, looking at me

of his

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