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For a generally polite girl, Sarah had a lot of very impolite things to say to Jake.
Bertrise pretended she had a lot of work to do on my monitors, my bedding, swabbing my forehead—anything to get to stay in the room while the whole drama played out.
“As if WE are the problem,” Sarah shouted at one point, “banning my family instead of yourself! When you’re the one who insisted I show you and Bryan where I thought Halli Markham and my brother might be. Now I see they were hiding with good reason! Daniel told me everything about it. We had no business barging in there like that, just so you could satisfy your prurient suspicions about what they might be doing—when I’ve already told you Daniel fancies the cousin—”
“There is no cousin,” Jake said. “Halli’s parents don’t have any sibling
