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A flicker of something crosses her expression, but then it disappears as quickly as it showed.
“What?” I lean closer to her.
“In which libraries have you found books?”
“The secret ones.”
She plays with my hair. “That doesn’t tell me much. Do you have any idea how many secret libraries Valora holds?”
“At least three.”
“Try more than twenty.”
My mouth falls open. “What? Where?”
“If I tell you, they wouldn’t be a secret, now would they?”
I scowl at her.
“Which three did you find, sweetheart?”
“If I told you, it wouldn’t be a secret.”
She bursts out laughing. “Fair enough. I—”
“Wait just a minute!” My mind races. “It was you!”
“Come again?”
“You put the books there!”
“What books? Where?”
“Don’t play dumb. It all makes sense. Who would’ve wanted Drake dead more than you?”
Mom takes a deep breath. “I wish I knew what you were talking about.”
“It really wasn’t you?”
“If you tell me what you’re talking about, I’m sure I can explain my innocence.”
I study her, and she does look genuinely confused. “While you were banished, I found some books on Queen Sirena in secret libraries but now they’re gone. I can’t figure out why, other than the fact that someone put them there so I could find them.”
“It wasn’t me. I haven’t been to any of the secret libraries since our return to Valora.”
“You don’t know anything about her father?”
“Queen Sirena’s?”
I nod.
“Not off the top of my head. Why?”
If she doesn’t know, I don’t want to tell her. She just got the love of her life back, and I’m not going to tell her that if I follow the path of the long-gone queen I’m going to have to kill him.
I’m not going to kill him. It’s not happening.
“What about Sirena’s father?” Mom asks.
