“Maybe he’s just curious,” Claire said. “There’s got to be a tremendous need to actually see, if only for a moment. Look at Nicky.”
“What about Nicky?” Sybil asked.
“He never knew his father,” Claire said. “That’s all. And I know how much he wishes he had had the chance to.”
“His father died,” Sybil said. “Sam’s known for years his mother’s alive. There’s a big difference.”
“The need must be the same, though,” Claire said. “Besides, what does it matter? Has Sam left already?”
Evvie nodded. “He took the shuttle to New York,” she said. “That was part of the plan. He can’t even fly out from Boston, in case he might be followed. He isn’t being followed. His family’s paranoid, but they’ve never worried about that. From New York, he’s going to fly to wherever. He has an assumed name. She gave it to him, and she’ll have fake ID waiting for him. It’s a nightmare. He couldn’t use any of his credit cards, so we’ve been doing everything with cash, using all our cash-machine cards to make withdrawals. He’s traveling with all that cash, and he’s going to a strange city under an assumed name to meet his mother, and he’s going to have to act like she really is his mother, so her doctor won’t suspect anything, and then if everything works out, he gets to stay there for major surgery. And I’m supposed to act like this is perfectly all right. He’ll call me from pay phones when he can at my office at school. Short calls, just in case the FBI gets wind of something and starts tracing my office calls. Sam’s going through the worst thing in his life, and he’s deliberately keeping me out of it. I wish she’d die. I wish she’d die right now, before there’s any need for the surgery. I wish the FBI would find her right this very minute. I wish Sam would come to his senses, and fly back home now.” And this time when she began to cry, neither Claire nor Sybil tried to stop her.
“Maybe they won’t be compatible,” Claire said. “He might have his father’s blood type or whatever.”
“That’s what I keep hoping,” Evvie said. “But that might be even worse for him, knowing he couldn’t help. I don’t know. Claire, I am so frightened. I’m more frightened than I was even in Eastgate, when I learned everything. It’s like the accident. It’s that kind of fear. So many things could go wrong. He might even die. And there’s nothing I can do.”
“You have to tell Nicky and Megs,” Claire said. “Everything. You’re too deeply involved now. They have a right to know.”
“Do you think so?” Evvie asked. “I’ve wanted to tell them for so long.”
“Tell them,” Claire said. “Thea, too. It’s not just Sam’s secret any longer. It belongs to all of us now.”
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About the Author
Susan Beth Pfeffer wrote her first novel, Just Morgan, during her last semester at New York University. Since then, she has written over seventy novels for children and young adults, including Kid Power, Fantasy Summer, Starring Peter and Leigh, and The Friendship Pact, as well as the series Sebastian Sisters and Make Me a Star. Pfeffer’s books have won ten statewide young reader awards and the Buxtehude Bulle Award.
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