TOO MUCH TO ASK?

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~HARRIET’S POV~ As if he’d seen a ghost, the blood from his face all drains, leaving him as pale as a white mouse, something that amazes me. Was I right in conjecturing that my Beta and my brother have been hiding something from me? It seems so from the manner in which he stares at me with such dreadful eyes. Having taken his sweet time in contemplating hard on the subject of our concern, he conceals his alarms and asks coolly, “Why would we lie to you?” “I don’t know. I just feel like you’re hiding something, or why else would you all get stuck with rueful faces whenever I mention my intent for excursions to my mother's grave and the woods of Leaden valley?” I ask, hoping for honesty to be reciprocated as well. “I might be an unconscious habit, as far as my conduct is concerned. I d

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