estate into a hollow cavern. The air sat
ok hold of me. My ski
loth to my forehead while she dialed my father's burn
r the estate guards to stir. She hoisted me onto her back and marched into
ewhere, a wheelchair peeled across worn linoleum with a sticky, sucking sound.
r voice cut th
en
tside an examination room. Elena beside him.
mob doctor. "Yes, I'm acting as Leo's guardian," he co
in my stomach l
met my mother's. The three of us s
et and false. "Leo just had a little accident," she said, her
furniture. Instead, she raised her hand and
father's hand, charged forward,
My hip struck the linoleum with a
Leo yelled. "Stop tryi
apped her cheek with a theatrical crack. She collapsed
she wailed. "The boy d
found irritation. "Stop giving them at
osed. She began to swoon, her body
arranged itself into manufactured panic as he rushe
at me before ru
elped me to my feet. She turned her back on that examination room, and
ay, the doctor's voice dri
oretti. Elena is nearly
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