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Chapter One

Leila

“Stop fidgeting,” my Uncle Chris snaps atto be able to do this?” He leans back in his chair, his giant ives me a skeptical look

“It shouldn’t be a proble fro from him It’s only fair

“You’ll get five percent of the sale if you pull this off Anything else you ht find we’ll have to see about”

I shake my head “I don’t want the money” That’s not what this is about At least not for me Warren is the reasonI can to make sure he feels the consequences of that

He pushedhier So he took the one thing he still did have: his life I want Warren to knohat it feels like to have so taken from him

“Your apple didn’t fall far froers on his desk He has a better manicure than I do

“I wouldn't know” I cao For my entire life, my mom refused to tell oing through her things that I discovered my dad’s identity

It was all right there in e, I learned so about my life I didn’t know But I’d been too late when it caht

When I lost my mom, it felt like I’d lost a piece of rief, but this is giving ing inside of me

“You have his eyes and hair coloring” I reach up to touchwith the ends