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Chapter 112
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George's povI'd found the page that morning, and I didn't read it.I want that on the record, because I've gone over it a hundred times since. At five on Friday, while Camila was asleep with her hand on her stomach and Dom's men were on every door, I got up in the dark, put on a jacket over my bandage, and drove to Queens. I'd told no one. I couldn't have said why. Dana's voice kept going in my head. *Not in the dark. Not out loud.*Unit 214 smelled the way it always did. I pulled down the three plastic bins stacked at the back, the ones I'd shoved there after the funeral, full of mail the landlord had sent on. Bills. Catalogs. Birthday cards from our mother's sister. At the bottom of the second bin was a stack of envelopes held together with a rubber band that had gone brittle and snapped when I touched it.The one on top was addressed to Aurora in a small, round, careful hand. No return address. A postmark from Sullivan County, eight years old.It had been opened. Neatly, with a kn
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Camila's pov Two heartbeats.That's what Dr. Rao showed us on Thursday at two in the morning, with the blue monitor light flickering over her white coat. She'd traced them with the tip of her pen. Two small flickers on a gray screen, side by side, fast as birds."There," she said. "And there."Neither of us spoke. George had gone very still beside the bed. His good hand was wrapped so tightly around mine I thought my fingers might break."Twins," said Dr. Rao. "Fraternal, by the look of it. About eleven weeks. Both with strong heartbeats." She turned the pen toward a dark smudge beside the sacs. "That's a small bleed, a subchorionic hematoma. It's the source of what you saw tonight. It's common, especially with stress, and it usually resolves on its own. But I want you off your feet. Not in a hospital. At home, flat, for at least a few days. No driving. No stairs more than you can help. No more mountains.""I wasn't on a mountain," I said weakly."No. But you're married to a man who
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Darian's povSam and Elias got to my apartment at ten past three in the morning, covered in mud, carrying a sealed bag like it was a sleeping child.I'd been at the hospital until two. My mother had come through the worst of it. Whatever the man in scrubs had put in that syringe, he'd never gotten it into her, and once the nurses stopped the alarm and the surgeon checked her over, the numbers had settled. She was asleep, heavily sedated, with a police officer outside her door. I'd stood at the foot of her bed for a long time. I hadn't said anything. There wasn't anything left to say that wouldn't wake her.Then George's call had come, Sam's voice on the line. *We have it. Everyone's alive.* I sat down on the floor of the corridor and put my head between my knees until the dizziness passed.Now Elias stood in my living room with straw in his hair, and Sam set the bag on the dining table and stepped back. The three of us looked at it."We should log it," Sam said. "Properly. Priya said—
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George's povPike didn't draw a weapon. That's what I remember most.He stood in the glare of his own headlights with his hands in his coat pockets and a mild look on his face, like a neighbor come to borrow a ladder. Behind him, four men got out of the other two cars. They weren't in a hurry either. One carried a long gun low against his leg. Another had something that looked like a bolt cutter."Mr. Wilton," Pike said. "Good evening. Mrs. Voss. Mr. Reyes. I'd say it's a nice night for a walk, but it's cold."Nobody answered. I had the red book in a canvas bag over my shoulder, and I felt its weight like a second heartbeat."Here's how this goes," Pike went on. "You hand me the bag. I say thank you. Everyone goes home, and nobody explains to the sheriff why four people were digging under a shed on private property. It's a very simple evening.""No," said Dana.She had the rifle up. I hadn't seen her move. She stood at the corner of the woodshed with the stock against her shoulder and
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Camila's pov Cora knew before I told her. That's how it goes with children. You spend three weeks rehearsing a sentence in the mirror, deciding how to make it gentle and age-appropriate and not frightening, and she walks into the kitchen on Wednesday morning in one sock, looks at the saltines on my plate, and says, "Mama, is there a baby in there?" Ruth dropped a spoon. "Why would you think that?" I asked. "Because you're sick every morning, and you don't drink your coffee, and you keep doing this." She put a hand flat over her own stomach, very seriously, copying me exactly. "And Daddy George smiles at you like you're a present." I looked at Ruth. Ruth looked at the ceiling. "Come here," I said. She climbed into my lap. She's seven and a half and too big for it now, all elbows and knees, but she folded herself against me like she'd done it a thousand times. I put my chin on her hair. "You're right," I said. "There's a baby. It's very small, about the size of a grape. It'll
They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Chapter 111
Darian's povI was in the car, on the way to see my mother, when the warden called.It was Wednesday, a little before two. Priya had cleared it Tuesday night. The protective custody paperwork had gone through, the district attorney had agreed to a cooperation meeting, and nobody could think of a reason to keep me out. I'd shaved. I'd put on a dark jacket. I'd practiced, in the mirror, how to say *Mother* without my voice shaking.My phone showed a number with a 914 area code. I almost let it ring."Mr. Baldore? This is Warden Patricia Lowe at Bedford Hills." The voice was brisk and very careful. "I'm sorry to call you directly. There's been an incident."I told the driver to pull over."Your mother was attacked in the laundry about forty minutes ago. A fellow inmate. She was stabbed three times. She's been airlifted to Westchester Medical, and she's in surgery." A pause. "I should tell you that it's serious. I don't want to say more than I know."The street outside the window blurred.
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