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w seconds, my thumb hovering over the

r one of Jenna's boring tricks.

me Edgewood was a quiet old industrial town. The economy

on that my "biological parents" were

I wondered how I should start. Hi, I'm you

too a

ited the highway a

ny shops on both sides of the street were closed, and the few pe

he glamorous, affluent nei

west side of town, an old com

ped in front

The lawn in the yard hadn't been mowed in a lon

luggage. He gave me a sympathetic look, as if he wanted t

took a deep breath, a

an who looked to be in her fifties with graying h

her eyes filled with ex

entle and harmless. "Is this the Kowalski reside

n's body visibly stiffened

hen to my lips. Her expression changed from wary to sho

le; she took a half-step ba

handle of my s

se, holding a wrench, wearing oil-stained

me, and the wrench in his h

stammered, unable to fo

Or rather, the

pulled me inside, and quickly clos

was simple and old, and the

at a loss, their shoulders hun

y suitcase aside and looked at them directly. "Jeffry

erlyn's body trembled violently. She sudde

face full of pain and str

f wanting to say somethin

more desperate tha

a steady, powerful knock s

in this dilapidated cottage. The three of us w

n expensive sui

straight at me, his chest rising and fa

syn Montgomery, I've