“You hid this from me. You hid it.” Worse, Ned had hid it. All those expeditions to places that weren’t safe for me. “It was illegal, what Ned was doing. We needed the money. I didn’t tell anyone. Your mother didn’t know. Grandpa didn’t know. I wished I didn’t know.” “What kinds of things?” “Poaching. Courier for … what they were growing the other side of the ridge.” I tried to absorb that. “And I never knew any of this.” Searching my memory for any hint, any clue, other than Ned’s disappearances. “Ned specialized in salamanders.” “What?” “A big demand in China for salamanders. Other places,
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