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"OK, I’ll go see what’s up But I don’t think she’s doing this on purpose She’s just mixed up and confused"

"About what?" I whisper in her ear,as alk towards the front of the restaurant "There’s only one fking thing she needs to understand None of us are in a very good position right now There’s a global organization that wants you back and wants her dead If she’s half as s take a clue from you and do as she’s told"

Chapter Twenty-Nine - Harper

Do as she’s told?

Can he be anyto the back of the restaurant It’s a nice ass Then I notice several wo withcreeps up

Jealousy

One woaze, so I just turn around and walk outside The dinosaur is on the other side of a large parking lot and just this trek hassun It’s so hot here I’ve spent most of my life in the tropics, so I’m used to hot But the heat out here in the desert is suffocating It zaps the life froest yacht, not the sailing one, actually has a pool But even if there was no pool, the spray of the sea kept you coollot when another emotion hits me

Homesickness

I have to admit, I miss the ship I miss that life I was not abused or treated badly I miss the ocean and the salty wind I ray beast when I spot Sasha sitting underneath At least it’s shady I walk under, bypass an empty stone picnic table, and cop a seat on the brontosaurus toe next to the one she’s occupying "What’re you doing?"

"Thinking," she says as she rolls her flip flop over soreat "I think Jaet you"

She’s silent for a few seconds and I’et her feet started when she finally pipes up "Did you everin a house? With parents and school and stuff?"