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What does that mean?
| stare at Adrian as a million possibilities run around my head. How did he know? Did he know something? Is he
talking about the junkie thing, or my dad, or both... | dare not go for the one direction that I'm afraid to go-
Could it mean...that my mom can still be alive?
“It can wait,” Aurora rubs my shoulder as | apparently freeze.
“I'm okay,” | mumble, but | AM a bit out of it. | don’t feel like bursting out in tears when | hear about it again, but
I don’t know if | could take it to have my hopes up only to be crushed again.
Adrian sighs, givinga resigned look: “This would be how you feel ALL THE TIME, if you look into this yourself.
Every piece of new information, confirmed or not, will be an emotional rollercoaster. And quite frankly, | don’t
think you can handle it-"
“Adrian Dunn!” Aurora bursts out in anger, “How could you-?!"
“Aurora,” | follow her up to stop her, “It’s okay. I'm okay, and he is actually right. If | can’t take such a nothing
news, then | can’t handle the investigation.”
Adrian looks atwith an apologetic look.
“I'm sorry, That's all | can say to him in front of Aurora for now, “I won't get my hope up that easily from now on.
I can handle it.”
“Your mother...” Adrian takes a deep breath, “She is likely to be dead. Whatever the truth is, | doubt Jack Fuller
would dare to just steal a kid when the mom remains a loose end. So yes, you'd be better off if you
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“I understand,” | nod. Aurora hugsin silence.
| bite my lips, feeling the little fire of hope that stingswhen it’s extinguished as | close my eyes. | need to
grow up, if | want to find out
the truth about me. If | want to do this for Mom. MY Mom.
“I can do it,” I make up my mind, “If she died, then I lost her a long time. ago. | can’t lose her twice, right? | want
to do something...related to her. | want to...get to know her.”
Silence, then Adrian breaks it: “Ava first said that your mom was dead when her father picked you up, but later
changed it to your mother begged her father to take you. Ava definitely lied at least once in there, and maybe
both times are lies even. We can only know if we look into
ie.”
Plausible.
| was too upset by Ava’s words to remember that she was nothing but a liar. But this liar knows about my family,
and the good thing is, | know this liar well.
“I need to move back to the Fullers,” | think out loud, seeing a plan more and more clear, “If they could get a
fake birth certificate and the full thing, then it’s hard to find anything on our own, especially when we have no
lead to go on with. But they do. | just need to get close to Jack Fuller's safe.”
“And get through his security, and get his password,” Adrian curves his lips into a smirk, the politeness in his
tone is not diminishing any of the
sarcasm.
| roll my eyes: “I got into it once, then | can do it again!”
“You did?!” This tAdrian laughs with a bit of surprise, “That's
actually impressive. So what did you find?”
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“Well, my adoption files, obviously,” | shrug, “I did it because I didn’t believe her ‘slip of the tongue’, | sneaked in
and tried out the password, just a combination of Anna Fuller's birthday.”
“Interesting,” Adrian rubs his chin in deep thought, murmuring, “Then I'm 80% sure that what Ava said was not
the truth.”
“Why?” | frown in confusion.
“| don't think the safe of someone like
Jack Fuller is that easy to break in,
little girl,” Adrian Igaqs(Bpekc dn the
safep the Fry sfriirk on his lips
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“Wait,” | raise my hand, having a hard tprocessing what he is saying, “So he faked a fake adoption file? It
doesn’t make sense-"
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Damn it! | stare at Adrian in disbelief.
“But that’s good news,” Adrian grins wider at my regretful look,” because we now have a good chance at finding
out the truth.”
“How?” We three blurts altogether, all staring at Adrian.
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to Ava’s story last time, so he Is ery
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He leads us to the real leads he would be burying.
“All we need now is a plan.” &
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