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“How much money did they take?” one of the officers asked. Lily hesitated to tell them but knew she couldn’t keep adding lies or it would catch up to her. “A couple of thousand dollars,” she admitted with a wince. Carrying around that much money was suspicious as hell, but she wanted to be as honest as possible for Dianna’s sake. All of their eyes widened in shock, but Dianna’s grandson recovered quickly. “That’s a lot of cash to be carrying around Lily,” he pointed out the obvious. “You wouldn’t be running away, now would you?” he asked, his gaze again locking onto the mark on her cheek. “I’m eighteen,” Lily replied. “There’s no reason I couldn’t leave home.” Belatedly, she realized that she had basically admitted that she was in fact running away. The officers shared a meaningful g