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Eduardo flexed for her benefit while Cian loudly cleared his throat

"Bianca Leduc has a similar bloodline to you, Liya," he said "Whichon both of you"

"Still in the dark here" Ahter of a very fa his chin, he looked at Sao The connection between Amaliya and Bianca"

"We didn’t know Bianca was important until now She was just another body, another victim," Cian pointed out

Samantha slid onto Jeff’s lap to better read the article He happily wrapped an ar the feel of her so close to him Her hair smelled of shampoo and her skin of flowers Heat her because she blushed as she stole a look at him He returned it with a shy smile

"Okay, found the file!" Benchley dropped a leather book onto the table Alexia immediately bent over it with hi Eduardo a warning look

Eduardo just srinned at hily "So so about?"

"If both of you are descended fro to see if your poould connect with his" Cian gently swept Amaliya’s hair back from her face "He made you with a purpose in mind"

"Well, I don’t know if thatthere was a purpose to what he did to me kinda freaks me out"

Samantha slid into the chair Cian had vacated and Jeff instantly missed her in his arms She leaned her elbows on the table and stared at the article "So I’ht?"

"It does make sense His necromantic power has to do with the dead If the affinity to see and talk to the dead is in your bloodlines, then he could have been hoping that you would inherit his power So Saure this shit out!" She sathered around the table

"Color me impressed," Alexia h-five Sao, Salanced at him She looked a lotHe hadn’t been too happy to hear she had gone to confront Aet a grip on the situation

"Josephine Leduc’s daughter would have been a pri two descendants of famous mediums in the same place"

"It would have been irresistible to him," Cian noted

"But Grandmama isn’t famous," Amaliya protested "She kept all that on the lon on purpose"

"Not true," Alexia said, looking up "After your grand She was in the newspapers when she was a teenager There was a devastating tornado in her town and she helped find the survivors buried in the rubble When they asked her how she knehere the living were located, she said the dead told her She was thirteen at the time, so she probably didn’t realize the reporter would actually put that into his article"

"Are you serious?" Amaliya sat back in shock "She did that?"

"Yeah There was just one more follow up article where there was a backlash frorandfather, said that the reporter hadn’t told her who he was and that she had misspoken," Alexia explained "I told Jeff all about it"

"Oh, really?" Amaliya tilted her head toward the end of the table "Really, Jeff?"

Jeff could feel A into him "Hey, it was just two articles I didn’t think it was i it up to you I ht?"

A me shit"

"It wasn’t on purpose," Jeff said defensively

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