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ure again - my mother, Lucian, a baby, and Adrian's fat

father died bef

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him. "What kin

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s voice was bitter. "Wha

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t the c

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he

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e again. "My father'

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. Adrian drove into an underground p

ound. "Why

dy knows I ow

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t smiled

thouse. A man was waiting inside - old, gray-haired, broad-shouldered, his left

ought h

an n

is head. "You s

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man looked at me. "

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changed

know my

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at Adrian. "

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s dang

keeps telling me I'm in dan

n sighed. "Your father

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ed. "Lucian Va

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he did

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d grim. "He went after th

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me. "But there

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ted. "You

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at Adrian. "Adri

t. Adrian's face ha

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t Adrian.

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oked at m

stopped

anted both." Victor pointed toward the photo

gave the

his head. "Sh

owed. "Then who

didn't

pped close

e problem." He looked at me. "The baby in that

him. "Then

ther wasn't holding your brother.

an went completely sti

se. My mother. Adrian's father.

at was me..." I looked at Adrian.

y ans

rang. Victor's face cha

ly moved toward

e people who knew about this photograph." He l

"But my fat

Elena." His eyes moved towar

eone I recognized. My mother's closest friend, the

hen pulled a gun fr

around the trigger. "Your mother should