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Chapter 34

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The Trail Widens

Camilla POV

My contact called at midnight, which was either very good news or very bad news, and after the week I'd had, chasing shadows and covering tracks that kept multiplying faster than I could bury them, I wasn't feeling particularly optimistic.

"Hospital records," he said, his voice flat and businesslike, the way it always was when he'd earned every dollar of his fee.

'Birth certificate.

Everything you wanted, delivered exactly as promised.

"And what?

I put the phone to
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    Too CloseSebastian’s POVI told myself I’d pass the school. One time. To observe it. Just that.I didn't intend to stop.But then the black gates appeared, kids pouring out in a wave of backpacks and noise, and something in my chest tightened enough that I had to park across the street before I'd consciously decided to.I didn't know what he looked like. That part got me the most, sitting there scanning a crowd of children for a face I had no reference for, looking for myself in a stranger's.Then I saw her.Ariana emerged from a car near the entrance, sunglasses on against the overcast sky, moving through the crowd with the same unhurried authority she brought to any boardroom. A boy broke from the pack of kids and ran straight toward her, backpack bouncing, dark hair falling over his eyes. She knelt to meet him halfway. I couldn't hear what he said, but I watched him talk with his hands, animated, serious, the way children are about things that feel enormous to them and nothing a

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