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Chapter 53: Being Hannah
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Reeves.The word sat in the hallway between us.Uncle.I looked at Hannah's face. She was doing the thing she did when she'd committed to something and was waiting to find out what it cost her — chin up, shoulders back, eyes steady in the specific way of someone performing steady because the alternative was visible."Where did you hear that?" I said."The records room." She didn't flinch. "The visit in March. Two years ago. You left me waiting for forty minutes and I got bored and the cabinet wasn't locked and—" She stopped. "You know what I found.""I know what you think you found.""I found your adoption certificate." Her voice was even. "I found the Yale family tree with your name on it. I found a letter from the patriarch to his lawyer about restructuring the inheritance after Gerald and Dante were born." She looked at me. "I know what I found."I looked at her for a long moment.Then I moved past her down the hallway toward the kitchen.She followed. Of course she followed. Hanna
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