Page 171 of Secrets and Lies
“Do you have a suit?” I ask.
“Yeah, in my room.”
“We’ll stop so you can change when we head over,” Connor says, completely ignoring me to talk to West.
My doorknob jiggles, like someone is trying to open it, then there’s a loud knock.
“Did you lock Rath out?” I ask Connor as I stand.
“No comment.” He shoots me a quick grin.
Shaking my head at his antics, I go over to the door to let Rath in.
“Connor?” he asks as he steps into my room.
“Yup.”
“I’m so getting him for that.” Rath nods at where the twins and West are talking animatedly about something. “Is he in?”
I nod.
“Has he figured it out yet?”
“He just did.”
Rath smirks. “Took him long enough.”
“He got there on his own, and that’s really all I can ask for.”
He chuckles. “True.”
“Holy shit,” Hazen exclaims. “Seriously?”
West nods.
“Did you know sharks are older thantrees?” Connor asks, looking gobsmacked.
“Between fifty and sixty million years older,” West says with a big grin.
“How is that even possible?” Rath asks, looking just as incredulous as the twins.
“What’s another shark fact?” Hazen asks West.
“There’s a species of shark that can live to be between two hundred and fifty and five hundred years old,” West says.
“No fucking way.” Connor shakes his head.
“You’re pulling our chains,” Hazen accuses.
“I’m not,” West says. “The Greenland shark.”
“Tell them about the immortal jellyfish,” I say to West. “That one blew my mind.”
“Immortal jellyfish?” Hazen asks.
West turns back to the twins and launches into an animated description of the jellyfish that restarts its life cycle indefinitely until they get eaten since they can’t die of natural causes.
Their minds are obviously as blown as mine was when West told me about it, and the three of them talk excitedly.
