Chapter 184 — Cricket's Sister

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Marlowe Cricket found me at the wedding planning table, uncharacteristically serious, and I understood immediately he'd come to finish a conversation Sable's dramatic arrival at King's office had interrupted before he'd ever gotten the chance to properly explain himself. "I never finished telling you," he said, sitting across from me with none of his usual joking energy. "About my sister. Figured you deserved the rest of it, especially since you never once treated me differently after everything got so complicated that night." "I'd like to hear it, if you're ready to share." He nodded, gathering himself. "Her name's Willa. Younger than me by a few years. She got involved with a rough crowd back before I patched into this club — nothing as serious as Blackfang, just petty stuff that spi

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