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"No," Ashleigh says quickly "He’s so upset, I can’t see hih he had to put up with me and my sadness for the past two months, but this? It’s like a slap in the face He’s been taking care of Kate like she’s his own child since she was four et home to file the papers, and this happens I swear to God, if I find out this is Tony’s parents doing this to try to get a hold of Kate, I will lose , "if I were you, I’d call their asses up and ask them what the fk? Ya know? Put them on the spot Make them come clean and say what they want Maybe they just want to uys can sort it out in like tenat me "What? That’s what rational people do People like Ronin, Spencer, and Ford do the complicated shit Who needs complicated when you have easy I ht, Veronica That’s brilliant" She perks up at

"What?" I ask her

"Ash, if Ford says he’ll handle it, then you should just let him handle it"

"Why?" I blurt "Are you so brainwashed by Ronin that you can’t i a si is a conspiracy"

Ashleigh is looking at lances quickly over to Rook and her whole attitude changes "Yeah, you’re right Ford can deal with it, I guess Let him call them up and ask what the fk"

My h, seriously It’s a phone call Rook, stopwith her"

"Ronnie, there’s things going on that you don’t know about, OK? It’s better to hand this off to Ford and the guys and let the into so infor you two are part of the Team, but me, I’m not So I can’t possibly understand how complicated it could be to just call up people she already knows and ask theht?"

"What if it’s not the trap? Why would anyone be using this stupid adoption to trap Ashleigh?"

Rook sighs, but she stays silent

Ashleigh won’t ain, you two are in on the secrets but I’uys, and I’m not"

"That’s not--"