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Lucinda Santiago
It was probably wrong to go out with Brandon and leave Hayley alone at the flat she’d been sharing with Levi. But Hayley insisted she was all right, and that she’d really rather be by herself right now. Brandon had also seemed dubious about leaving — despite his sometimes off-hand manner, he really did care about his sister — and in the end Hayley had to all but push the two of them down the stairs to get rid of them.
Now they were headed toward Sedona in Brandon’s sleek restored Camaro, and Lucinda wasn’t quite sure what to say. She and Brandon had planned this date when everything seemed about as calm and quiet as it could be, as though they’d all hoped that maybe Matías’ death had driven his father into a brooding mourning which didn’t allow room for anything else
