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He spread his hands. “Don’t look at me. I don’t know my way around here either.”

“Aren’t you the Landons relative?”

“Only barely. They’d need multiple family trees to trace it.”

Miranda gave him a helpless look.

“Still, I’ve got a decent sense of direction. Let’s keep going, and maybe we’ll figure it out,” he suggested, leading the way.

After countless turns and traversing numerous pathways, they finally arrived at a small courtyard. Surrounding the area was a lattice fence, fashioned into an exhibition wall. Miranda leaned in for a closer look and found it covered with photos from Sebastian’s childhood.

From his birth to his first month, to his first birthday, age five, and age ten…

She picked up a photo of a very young Sebastian, nose and eyes streaming with tears. His face was still wrinkled and resembled a little monkey.

A few of the photos showed him around age three; a small boy with a round face, wearing a fuzzy onesie and a headband adorned with Teletubby–like antennae. He had red–nose and red–eye, clearly having just cried.

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his sentence, Paul interjected, “Scott, you’ve had too much to drink. They’re all still students; studies come first. Spreading talk like

many… Academics should be their priority, and the rest…

off to tend to

put, and his gaze was steady. “You shouldn’t have said

raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Do you

free to say what you want, Mr. Cooper,

you implying I haven’t thought of

the eyes. “Mr. Cooper, you’re a smart man,

the only one who cares about her. I care

Then, if you truly care, don’t put

a few words. Dr. Jefferson, you don’t need

it was just words. What about tomorrow? Those accustomed to acting on impulse don’t think things through. The Landons might be forgiving, but with someone else

froze, his expression

Paul

with that, he walked

cream on her hands. She’d wiped them with a napkin,

she exited, she bumped into Sam, who offered her a bottle of water. “The cake’s pretty sweet; have

sip of her drink before setting it down. Clearly, she didn’t

accepted the water gratefully. “Thank

together, needing to go through a long, covered corridor. with two turns. The Landon estate

and winding paths that all seemed the same. Before long, it was clear they were lost. Miranda instinctively looked at

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