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Kami hesitated "Yes," she answered "You can have exactly one minute Talk fast"

Ash looked like he felt stressed out having a deadline, but he gave it a shot "I’m sorry for what I said about Jared I have to ad each other five uy, it’s obvious he’s had a rough tiive hi ive hi "So, are we okay?" Ash asked

"Yes," said Kami "We’re okay So, now do you want to coative teaht So …" He trailed off

"Talk while you walk," Ka"

He followed her at an easy lope while Kami hurried up the stairs "You said you wanted to do an interview at Aurimere? I haven’t found an old-fashioned white shirt yet, but I wondered if you wanted to coht?"

"Sure, if I have time after we break into the lawyer’s office"

"I’m sorry," Ash said "What?"

Kami held the door of the headquarters open for hiroup"

Ash went in, casting a look that was half amused and half dubious back at her His stride toward his desk was checked when he walked into the line of Jared’s glare

Ash gave hilance, then continued to his own desk

Jared turned his attention to Kareed to try to stay out of stuff like that ere fourteen years old You remember ere fourteen!

Kami shut and locked the door She’d meant her co, but instead she got hit with Jared’s feelings, forcing her to turn and look at hi forward, arht in the doorway looking back at hiela coughed into her hand

Kami realized that to all appearances she and Jared had just been lost in each other’s eyes for the past two inary-friend-related embarrassether and surveyed her teaht and eager Angela was kicked back in her chair, looking despairing about the entire universe and Kami in particular Ash sat forward in his chair, polite and attentive

Kami could feel Jared’s anticipation in her head He knehat she was about to say She told the others about finding the guesthouse card in the woods "So we’re going to have to discover as staying in the Surer Guest on the night the fox was killed," Ka else we could do: I want to knons the land that hut is on It’s possible the hut was built for a purpose" She beauys? Two leads!"

Everyone was not looking as thrilled as she would have wished

"You want to knons the land, so we’re breaking into a lawyer’s office?" Ash asked

"I see that you have a few doubts about this plan, Ash," Kami said "And I commend you on your caution But I’ve already tried the library and the Internet, and we don’t want anyone to find out we’re asking around, do we? I ot pushed into a well Plus you don’t have to worry about anything going wrong I used to play in the office with Mr Prendergast’s daughter Nicola"

Until Nicola had decided Kaast has all the deeds to practically every piece of property in town in his third filing cabinet," Kami said "And it just so happens that I knocked on his door on my way home Sunday and asked to use his bathroo his bathroo to be a snap!"

"This whole cri brown eyes

" ‘Cri a crime If we could make matters clear to the police, I’m sure they would look at these deeds But we can’t, so we are forced--yes, forced!--to do this ourselves Morally, this is legal"

"Legally, not so s "Okay, let’s pretend I’ with this"

"You really think five of us are going to break into a lawyer’s office and not get caught?" Ash asked skeptically

"No," Kami rushed to assure hioes in Via the on’t be breaking anything" She suys have to do is be ued Ash looked unsure but as if he didn’t want to back down Kah She overcahts in his crazy gray eyes were dancing A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having soet to have all the fun?"