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OLIVIA
I hate crying.
The lump in my throat is trying to choke me and it takes all the willpower I
have left to swallow it down. I hate crying and I’m not going to do it in
front of two kids I practically raised as my own. They need me to be strong;
they need to know that this is going to be okay.
It’s not, of course. And it won’t be.
But they don’t need to know that.
I’m kneeling in front of Liam—a precocious little blondie who has more
wits than any other five-year-old I’ve ever met—and his sister, Sophie.
She’s only three, but I can tell she’s going to be just as bright as her big
brother.
Their brilliant, blue eyes look up at me. Their gazes are kind of glossy,
though, like they know that something is off. I’ve been around Liam since
he was just barely one year old. I was there when Sophie came home from
the hospital, fresh out of the womb with her mother already poised to hand
her off to me. I’ve never seen a beautiful baby as beautiful as my little
Soph.
“Hey, don’t look at me like that,” I say, keeping my voice as playful as
possible. I brush my fingers through Liam’s cornsilk hair. “Sometimes,
adults have to go to new places. We can’t always stay behind, even if we
want to.”
“But why can’t you visit?” Liam protests. “You can’t live here… but GramGram lives in Da-ko-ta, and she visits!”
I swallow hard.
How do I explain this? I can’t tell a five-year-old that his father likes me a
little too much, even though he has a wife. I can’t tell him that I’ve fought
off Eric’s advances for well over a year. I can’t make him understand that
his mother is absolutely certain I’m having sex with her man, and rather
than consider the possibility that her female employee is being harassed,
she’d rather just get rid of me than get rid of the husband who pays the
bills?
Even for the smartest kid, that’s a lot.
It’s true, obviously. But despite all of that being fact, I still don’t have the
heart to ruin Liam’s opinion of his father like that. He thinks the man hung
the moon—what would it do to him if I tore that happy little fantasy to
shreds?
“Well. Gram-Gram is your family, Liam. And I —”
“But you are family, Liv!” He stomps his foot, his little blonde brows
furrowed with confusion. “You said —”
“You’re right.” I nod, smoothing my fingers over his apple cheeks. “I said
that. And it’s true. But we’re different kind of family than you and GramGram, remember? I have to go, and I can’t come back. But you can
remember me in here—” I point to his head “—and in here.” I point to his
chest, right over his heart. “You and Sophie both, right?”
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