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  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. LABOR DAY, 3:17 A.M.
  4. FOURTEEN WEEKS(AND THREE DAYS) EARLIER
  5. CHAPTER 2
  6. CHAPTER 3
  7. LABOR DAY, 3:19 A.M.
  8. FOURTEEN WEEKS(AND THREE DAYS) EARLIER
  9. CHAPTER 5
  10. CHAPTER 6
  11. CHARLOTTE AND LIVSUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  12. CHAPTER 7
  13. CHAPTER 8
  14. LABOR DAY, 3:22 A.M.
  15. THIRTEEN WEEKS(AND THREE DAYS) EARLIER
  16. CHAPTER 10
  17. CHARLOTTE, LIV, AND JULIASUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  18. CHAPTER 11
  19. LABOR DAY, 3:23 A.M.
  20. ELEVEN WEEKS(AND THREE DAYS) EARLIER
  21. CHAPTER 13
  22. CHAPTER 14
  23. CHAPTER 15
  24. LABOR DAY, 3:25 A.M.
  25. TEN WEEKS(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER
  26. LABOR DAY, 3:25 A.M.
  27. TEN WEEKS(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER
  28. CHAPTER 18
  29. CHARLOTTE, LIV, AND JULIASUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  30. CHAPTER 19
  31. CHAPTER 20
  32. CHAPTER 21
  33. CHAPTER 22
  34. CHAPTER 23
  35. LABOR DAY, 3:26 A.M.
  36. EIGHT WEEKS(AND SIX DAYS) EARLIER
  37. CHAPTER 25
  38. CHAPTER 26
  39. CHAPTER 27
  40. CHAPTER 28
  41. CHAPTER 29
  42. CHAPTER 30
  43. CHARLOTTE, LIV, AND JULIASUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  44. CHAPTER 31
  45. CHAPTER 32
  46. CHARLOTTE, LIV, AND JULIASUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  47. CHAPTER 33
  48. CHAPTER 34
  49. CHAPTER 35
  50. CHARLOTTE, LIV, JULIA,THE INTERLOPER, AND THE BOYSSUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  51. CHAPTER 36
  52. CHAPTER 37
  53. LABOR DAY, 3:28 AM
  54. SIX WEEKS(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER
  55. CHAPTER 39
  56. CHAPTER 40
  57. CHAPTER 41
  58. LABOR DAY, 3:35 A.M.
  59. SIX WEEKS(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER
  60. LABOR DAY, 3:36 AM
  61. FOUR WEEKS(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER
  62. CHAPTER 44
  63. CHAPTER 45
  64. CHARLOTTE, LIV, JULIA,THE INTERLOPER, AND THE BOYSSUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  65. CHAPTER 46
  66. LABOR DAY, 3:38
  67. FOUR WEEKS(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER
  68. LABOR DAY, 3:45
  69. THREE DAYS EARLIER
  70. CHARLOTTE, LIV, JULIA,THE INTERLOPER, AND THE BOYSSUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  71. CHAPTER 49
  72. CHAPTER 50
  73. LABOR DAY, 3:47 A.M.
  74. TWELVE HOURS EARLIER
  75. CHARLOTTE, LIV, JULIA,TRINA, AND THE BOYSSUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  76. CHAPTER 52
  77. CHAPTER 53
  78. CHARLOTTE, LIV, JULIA, AND THE BOYSSUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  79. CHAPTER 54
  80. CHAPTER 55
  81. CHAPTER 56
  82. KACISUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEARTWENTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER
  83. CHAPTER 57
  84. CHAPTER 58
  85. CHAPTER 59
  86. CHAPTER 60
  87. FOUR MONTHS LATER . . .
  88. CHAPTER 62
  89. CHAPTER 63
  90. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  91. Discover More
  92. About the Author
  93. BY JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
  94. A Sneak Peek of "The Inheritance Games"
  95. CHAPTER 1

I wondered how many times she’d slept with Campbell’s father. I wondered if she’d loved him. But my mom was still talking, so I didn’t ask.

“Ana didn’t know she was having a girl. The baby could have been a boy, I suppose.” There was something almost wistful in her expression. “We just always imagined having girls.”

I had to turn away, then, from the reminder that my mom had wanted me. She’d imagined me. Hell, she’d practically willed me into being. She’d imagined me being a girl. She’d imagined having a person who would always love her, no matter what.

I love you too much. You’re not allowed to hate me.

I walked away. I didn’t go far, just a few steps closer to the pool, but that was enough that when I turned back to face my mom, I could see past her into the Great Room. Through the massive, floor-to-ceiling windows, I could see Greer opening presents. As I watched, she picked up a white package adorned with a pale blue bow.

“Do you think Greer knows anything?” I asked. “About what happened to Ana?” It was easier to talk about that, to tell myself that I was doing this for Campbell as much as for myself.

“No,” my mom said. “She wouldn’t have. Ana and I tried to support her when she lost her baby, but she wasn’t even sad. She told us we were on our own, that she didn’t need us anymore. . . .”

And now she’s having a fake baby shower for a fake baby.

“Are you ever going to forgive me, Sawyer?”

It would have been easier if the raw emotion in my mom’s voice didn’t sound so much like everything I’d been feeling myself.

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about her. I breathed in and held the breath. Think about Davis Ames. Think about the fact that he’s the one throwing the fund-raiser Nick needs an escort to. Think about the fact that the old man “handled” the situation with Ana.

Think about the fact that he may have been the last person who saw her alive.

I let out a breath and walked past my mom toward the house. I answered her question but didn’t turn around. “I don’t know.”

LABOR DAY, 3:25 A.M.

“Is she gone?”

“I think so. For now.”

“You know how I said I could feel my shoulder? Good news: I think I can almost, maybe, kind of, sort of feel a tiny bit of my arm.”

TEN WEEKS
(AND TWO DAYS) EARLIER

CHAPTER 16