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But I bristle when I hear a fa to the door a party She will be delighted to hted to meet with you," the doorman responds mechanically, and invites Siate that separates the backyard froet a better view into the s of the foyer My attention already torn between trying to ascertain what Daphne and Tobin are up to, and trying to figure out why Si with theelse pulls at me The hairs on the back ofwatched

I scan the backyard, but it seeoers has noticed ate I look behind ht frolints off the visor of the hel black motorcycle His face is completely covered by the helled that he is either watching e fascination with cedarwood fences A catering van pulls up to the curb, blocking him from my view--andto rendezvous with a party guest and noticed a teenager sitting on the gate in the middle of the mayor’s yard, and I turn my attention back to the s of the rooone, and Sily locked in an intense conversation

Chapter twenty-eight

DAPHNE

Tobin leadshall toward the front of the mansion He stops and waits until one of the waiters passes, with a silver tray of teh a set of French doors into a roolass cases displaying various vases and artifacts lined up along the edges of the rooin, but most of them look like relics from ancient Greece or Ro?"

Tobin puts a finger to his lips to quiet me "Yeah," he whispers "But none of this is what I wanted to show you" He leads any desk and opens one of the drawers

"What are you doing?"

Fro a heist in hisme as his acco valuable In terms of money, that is It looks like an old fa weird about this picture?"

There are a lot of weird things about this photo It’s at least seven years old, based on how old Tobin looks in the picture, but I wouldn’t have guessed it was his fa, naturally curly, auburn hair and a daisy tucked behind her ear, and the Japanese man in the photo has hair almost to his shoulders, and wears a beaded necklace and a T-shirt with a windn on the front Besides their faces, they barely resemble the dapper power couple of the mayor and her husband There’s another boy in the photo who looks to be a few years older than Tobin

"Who’s that?"

"My brother, Sage," Tobin says "He went off to MIT a couple of years ago"

"MIT I’ as you are?"

"No He’s a enius, just like nize the windn on his father’s T-shirt "Wait I’ve heard your last nay Your parents own one of the largest alternative energy companies in the West They built a wind faro"

"Owned," he corrects me "They went public and sold out just before we moved to Oly into local politics and all They were total hippies, and now they’re the ultimate yuppies"

"I’ll say" I point at the picture "Your mom looks like she could have been on the cover of a Si about this picture Do you see it?" He points out the way his brother Sage’s hand see on an invisible person’s shoulder