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She nudged me with her arm "You’ve just been really quiet all day"

Had I? "I didn’t get an to clear the hill "You look like you could use a nap"

I laughed under my breath "Yeah, I really could"

"Did Luc keep you up last night?" Heidi grinned

"What? No" I’d already told them about my trip to the club yesterday Of course, I’d left out, well, everything When they asked if I learned anything aboutthat "I just couldn’t sleep Did Ehed

I was about to ask if she’d spent tiht, but Zoe stopped in front oflot "What in the hell?" she said

Curious, I stepped around her There was a car parked in the et out It was a newer model A Ford A few people stood back from it

"Isn’t thatAmanda’s car?" April suddenly walked past us, her blond ponytail swaying

"I don’t know," Zoe answered

April slid past a s"

I trailed behind April, glancing at Zoe She shrugged Amanda hadn’t been in che, then was she?

It happened so fast

"Ohjust as the driver’s side ca before I had a chance to look away, to not see ould forever be i in the driver’s seat, her posture rigid At first glance I thought she was driving--I thought everything was okay--but then I saw that her head was tipped back against the seat, her long blond hair falling over her shoulders Then I saw her face

Soing on h the windshield

I sahere her eyes should’ve been, but they were just burnt-out black sockets

"How are you handling everything?" Mom asked as she picked up a lid and placed it on a pot later that night

I watched my Mom from where I sat on the kitchen island, my chin in hts were kind of a tradition in our house whenever we both were hooofy ht was different

Amanda Kelly was dead

She had been murdered in the same way Colleen had

It looked like she’d been electrocuted, but we all knew that hat it looked like when a hu the Source Colleen Amanda Both killed in the same way Both left at the school in a very public manner, to be found

I shuddered

Police had arrived before any of us could leave the parking lot I think ere all questioned I had no idea if Amanda had been kept like Colleen, alive for days after she’d disappeared I wasn’t even sure I wanted to know

"Evie?" Mom said softly

I peeked up at her "Yeah, I’ about everything"

Mom ca like that"

"Me too"

She cupped aze lifted to hers, and I wanted to ask what other terrible things had she seen She worked for the Daedalus I knew they were responsible for things just as horrific as what had happened to Amanda and Colleen I looked away and her hand fell to the side "Do youdo you think a Luxen is responsible?"