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Chapter 14: The Test
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Juno's POV"Who sent you?" I said through the gap in the window.The thin man in the raincoat looked at me. Then he looked down at the photo of my mother's house on the seat. He wanted to be sure I had seen it. The window slid up. The car pulled away from the curb and turned the corner at the end of Clinton Street.I was still standing in the road in my socks when I called my mother."Mom. Is your porch light on?""Juno, it's dark out. Of course it's on.""Is anyone parked outside your house?"I heard the curtain rings scrape. "There's nobody. Why are you asking me that?""Lock the door. Please. Just tonight.""Go to bed, Juno," she said, and hung up. I called back twice more. Both times it rang until it stopped.Marcus stood between Dee and the door of the Sayer conference room. He had been standing there for ninety seconds, and neither of them had looked away.It was early on Tuesday morning. In less than three hours, Sloane's lawyer would question me under oath. It was called a depo
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Juno's POVSloane caught me on the townhouse steps, with the trunk's leather handle cutting into my fingers."Leaving so soon, darling? You've only just arrived." She came down two steps, so we were the same height. Inside, Grant was calling his sister's name. She didn't turn around. "Agnes has been with us for twenty years. She's old, and she's loyal, and loyalty is so expensive to keep. I'd hate for her to lose her job over a silly story about my clutch and Mother's diamonds.""Then don't make her."Sloane reached up and fixed my coat collar, just like she did with the maids before a party. "Sleep well, Juno."She went back inside, and the heavy door shut on Grant's voice. I carried the trunk to the corner by myself and waited in the cold for a cab.Rosa Delgado called me early on Saturday morning. She was shouting in Spanish and English at the same time."They are taking my oven, Juno! Men with a truck! Come now!"I jumped out of bed. Rosa owned the bakery around the corner from my
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