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"Are you sure it’s even here? I mean, ht for sure it was here" She shrugged helplessly, staring into the closet

"Well, just make sure you pick up your mess when you’re done," I teased, since she’d said that sa to me a dozen times before She shot h

I left her to finish sorting through what few undisturbed linens we had in the house and went to the living rooaed across fro ed

"Where’s Bobby?" I asked

"I sent him away" Milothe colored pawns dance with each other than playing the ga money transferred for them to leave and all that"

"How does Ezra feel about theed

"These dolls aren’t as hed She spun around the blue pawn and stuck out her bottoetting ready tohis best to sound cheerful "Remember, Daisy? Mae talked to you about all the work you had to do"

"I’" Daisy spun the pawn harder, and it went flying under a nearby chair Her face cru pawn

"I’ll get it Don’t worry," Milo rushed to appease her He crawled over to the chair and reached underneath it, feeling around for the pawn

"He’ll get it, Daisy," I said and put my hand on her back, and her lip quivered "It’s okay You don’t need to get upset"

"Is she getting cranky?" Mae asked from the hall "It’s been a few hours since she ate"

With his arm still stuffed under the chair, Milo arched his eyebrow at the words a few hours Daisy was crabby because it’d been hours since she’d eaten Even when I was brand new, I’d been able to go a day or tithout any problems

"Ouch!" Milo winced and yanked his hand back from under the chair

Before I saw it, I could slass left over from the broken picture fraed to ies, already slass out, it bled faster and harder The air filled with the scent