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“Can you stop that for a moment, Tara, there’s something I need to talk to you about,” Zack said. He shifted the pillow he was using as a seat closer to where the teen was lying on her belly while she played on his laptop.
It was a minute or so before Tara finished the game she was playing and tore her attention away from the screen. “What’s that, Mr Wild?” she asked.
“Do you have any family outside the village you can contact?”
“Why?”
“You’re going to need someone to look after you.” Zack saw the distress and panic on his guest’s face and hastened to reassure her. “You’re welcome to stay here as long as you want and need, I’m not about to kick you out after what you’ve been through, but I suspect the authorities, child services especially, would rather you were in the care of a rel
