Dorian heard his three-year-old daughter Nessa calling from inside, insisting she was not a wedding present.
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Chapter 12
Nessa began asking:
“Would Mommy send me away?”
Celeste.
I answered:
“No.”
Then corrected myself internally.
I could not speak for the dead in every hypothetical.
But this one?
No.
Celeste would not.
Then Nessa asked:
“Would you?”
I crouched.
“If you go somewhere, you’ll know where, why, and when I’m coming.”
She considered.
“Even sleepover?”
“Even sleepover.”
That became our rule.
Information before separation.
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Simple.
Powerful.
