Page 39 of Never Broken

And I don’t think they know she’s helping us

That’s all I can figure out without speaking English

I don’t understand anything else

I’m sorry

Text messages you could hear. I was here to save my sister, not make her cry about her shit detective skills. I tried another approach.

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I’m sorry, Maeve

Look, just tell me what it looks like inside, if you can’t go out

I could almost see her swiping at her eyes, sucking in unshed tears. Fuck, if Louisa thought I was brave, my sister was ten times braver still. She’d endured almost everything I had. The only difference was that she hadn’t done anything to deserve it.

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It’s a house, a big one

A house? What about the warehouse on Salt River Boulevard? That didn’t add up.

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We’re only allowed in the upstairs, but I can see out the window

The houses here are really big, and there are pretty red mountains

Okay. At least we were in the right area of the union, probably.

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The sunrises are all pink and purple and gold, and I can see the Pleiades just before dawn

See? I called them by the right name

I CAN learn ;)

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I’m glad, Maeve

And you can call them whatever you want

Anything else?

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I don’t know, some books, but everything’s in English

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Is anyone else there?

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A few other girls

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