Don’t you get it? You’re the one that knew something was wrong all along. You saw what folks didn’t see, which means you’re smarter than everybody else—including all those folk working for the city who got fired. Just ’cause you got a little trouble reading don’t mean you ain’t smarter than everybody else.” “Oh,” I muttered, glancing out the window at the library, wishing to hold a piece of it with both hands to keep me grounded. “Man, you should’ve seen your face,” Michael said with a small laugh. “After you put everything together, you were about to roll in that house guns blazing. I don’t
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