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her.
    “Nonsense,” her mother said. “Your father and I have stayed in your spare bedroom, and he’s as big as Noah.”
    “Mom, you know I meant it metaphorically. Look, it’s a week and a half before the school year starts. Everyone has been really patient with me considering the situation. The principal tore up my letter of resignation, and said I was welcome back whenever I could make it, so I’m going to call her tomorrow. I would have thought the school board wouldn’t be thrilled to have someone with so much notoriety, but they backed me as well. I was really surprised. I do worry about what the parents of my students will say if they find out Noah is living with me. It won’t go over well.”
    “Give me a break. I’m an old-fashioned Catholic, and even I know it’s a load of horse pucky,” Rose huffed.
    Kelly blushed. It had been worth a try.
    “Fine, if not Noah, then I’m arranging for off duty CPD officers to stay with you instead. Take your pick. Those men and women will have to leave their families because you can’t handle having the man who volunteered to do this.”
    Kelly wilted under the guilt her father heaped on her.
    “Fine, Noah can stay with me.” She turned to the man in question, where he was trying to look innocent as he plowed his way through a third helping of pie. “You’re not going to be comfortable. I’m up at all hours. I have a hectic schedule. You’re supposed to be on vacation, and I’m going to be working sixteen hour days for the first three weeks as I figure out lesson plans for two different subjects and set up meetings with each student’s parent or guardian.”
    Noah looked at her. “Is anyone going to be shooting at me?”
    “Maybe.”
    “Good thing I’m used to it. At least I don’t have to deal with a jungle.” Noah laughed. “You’re a great cook,” he said to her mother.
    He was right, her mother was a great cook. Kelly wished she could eat like she used to. She wished she could have her old life back, where she didn’t need a guard. She wished she wasn’t worrying her mom and dad. She wished she didn’t have the hots for Noah the way that she did.
    It was going to suck needing a guard for the next few weeks. But the idea being an imposition on the hardworking men and women of the Chicago Police Department went against the grain. Unfortunately she both hated and liked the idea of having Noah on guard duty.

Chapter Ten

    Staring as he carried the duffel bag into her home, the olive color was at odds with all the jewel tones in her apartment. She resented how comfortable he looked in her condo and she felt out of place. It just wasn’t fair. Maybe it was her headache, after all she had only gotten out of a hospital bed this morning.
    “You must be exhausted.”
    “Stop doing that.”
    “Doing what?”
    “Rummaging around in my head.”
    He gave her a funny look, walked towards her and gave her a hug. She melted. Maybe it was okay if he could read her, if she got hugs. She hugged him back. He maneuvered her to the couch.
    “I’m sorry Kali. I know this is a lot to take in.” He sat beside her, and she rested her head against his chest.
    She experienced a strong sense of déjà vu. She blinked hard, not wanting the waterworks start.
    “Alfred’s dead?”
    “Yeah. They broke into his house, he fought back and ended up falling down the stairs and breaking his neck. At least it’s what they think. His wife was at home, but she wasn’t harmed.”
    “Thank God. I remember him, he had great parents. They were redheads like he was.”
    “Yeah, it’s one of the things similar in all known cases. The found children were all matched up, in a sense, with people who were genetic matches.”
    “So there are six of us?”
    “I don’t think so. I remember a big group. I think there were many more who weren’t publicized, like me.”
    “Yeah, I made the national news. Lots of people came out of the woodwork to adopt me, but Dad was the one who