Corinne took the six-year-old girl’s sleeping pillow and threw it into a dog bed hidden beneath the end of the table.
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Chapter 14
Corinne eventually built a better relationship with Mabel.
Slowly.
Supervised at first.
Then ordinary lunches.
No forced maternal role.
Mabel called her Corinne.
That was fine.
Love does not require titles.
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Corinne stopped talking about Oliver’s place in the family.
More importantly, she stopped talking about Mabel’s future as though it belonged to adults.
