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Ka results She hadn’t realized how much of Sorry-in-the-Vale the Lynburns owned It must be half the town Lords of the manor, indeed

She was not surprised to find they owned the land where she’d calculated the hut stood It didn’t inificant The Lynburns owned al out the next file It was the deeds to the Glass house

The Lynburns owned that too

Kao that she and Kami’s father stayed in the Glass house because it was all they owned free and clear Kaood, the way parents did, but Sobo had never lied She’d been a believer in the stark truth

So was Kami But this made no sense This couldn’t possibly be true

Kami made her mind up fast She drew the deed out of the drawer, folded it, and slipped it in her jeans pocket Then she ducked down and ran, half-crouched, to the bathroo herself onto the sill In her haste, she overshot and landed on her hands and knees on the strip of grass between the building and the wall

Kami took a moment to catch her breath Then she stood, still dizzy, and looked into the faces of Holly and Angela They were peering around the side of the building froela’s black waterfall of hair They were both helpless with laughter

Oh e to the front of the building, where Jared stood at the top of the steps, looking pleased with hi of amazed onlookers, and Ash with a split lip

"Hi, Mrs Thoracious, Jared, is that the tio!"

"Is what the ti her a brilliant s that followed it flashed through her like sunlight

Kami raised her eyebrows I think it’s probably beat-down-for-Jared o’clock, she said Once I find out what you did

They made it halfway up the street, to the statue of Matthew Cooper, who had died heroically soela fell in a heap at the base of the statue, Ash leaned against it, and Jared leaned back against the railings that ran along the front of the inn and smiled like a devil

"He is totally insane," Ash said, at the same time as Holly said, with equal conviction, "That was hilarious"

"What happened?" Kami deela said "I don’t think they suspected anything, though; they were just looking at the Lynburn boys acting crazy"

"Who left the Holly an accusing glare

"You didn’t say as ela said calmly "I don’t like Jared and I am indifferent to Ash, so I made Holly co as the perfect criela’s face was usually sternly beautiful It eird to see her sentence sed by a laugh

Angela laid her head down on Holly’s shoulder while Kami looked around for answers

"He punched me in the face," said Ash, who understandably did not seem to find the situation hu with our personal trainer!"

"I was told breakup scenes were a good way to distract people," Jared said with beautiful simplicity

"Ash looked so surprised," Holly said "He had no idea as going on He said, ‘I didn’t sleep with our personal trainer! We don’t even have a personal trainer!’ "

Angela and Holly giggled Ash held the back of his hand to his bleedinglike a maniac "In that case," he told Ash solehed "You are the worst team of operatives anyor Drowning

Kae out of her criminal mastermind jeans into a debatably datelike dress for Ash Dad called out to her as soon as she was in the door "Ka for a forklift and tell theouely surprised Angela had made it there so fast Instead, she found Rusty stretched out on the hearthrug with his arraceful object," said Kaun," Dad announced "I live in the country A shotgun is a reasonable thing to own"

Kami abandoned the issue of Rusty’s home invasion in order to run upstairs and put on a black dress hite polka dots, and red tights Then she had to go back to the sitting room because the best mirror was over the fireplace and she wanted to check her lip gloss "Rusty, Dad needs to work and I’"

"I like that word," Rusty said, settling down for a nap "Coether"

Toan pulling his hair Rusty smiled beatifically and did not open his eyes

"Why are you putting on lip gloss, hter?" Dad asked "Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year"