“What makes you think I have the formula?”
“Let’s just say I have a reliable source”
“You are wasting your time; I know nothing about it”
“Oh but you do; you just don’t know it”
“Wasn’t it easy to just ask my parents for it?” Sheryl asked thinking that this was what she would have done if she were in his shoes.
“Well; that didn’t work out last time we tried it,… did it Seth?” Jack said now addressing Seth.
“No; not at all” Seth agreed.
“They must have realized how crazy you were and refused to give it to you” Sheryl said knowing that given the chance she wouldn’t give him anything that would put him in the position of power.
“They were stubborn; weren’t they?” Seth said with a small smile.
“What do you mean were?” Sheryl asked wondering why he was referring to them in past tense.
“Were is the tense one tends to use when people are no more” Jack told her bluntly.
Sheryl realized what he was saying. Her biological parents were dead; she wasn’t sure how to react to what she had just learnt. She couldn’t cry for people she had...
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