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12. Do you have a wife?

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RYAN

“Daddy, do you think it’s bad if I hit someone?” Ana asked from the passenger seat, her eyes fixed on the Rubik’s cube in her lap.

As her question registered in my mind, I went rigid. Completely, utterly rigid.

God, I loved this little girl with every part of me. I’d lay down my life without question if it ever came to that. She was brilliant, beautiful, and only eight. But sometimes… sometimes she made my heart race in all the wrong ways. Like now.

I swear the guy upstairs was having a grand laugh at my expense. Every damn woman He ever sent into my life had made it a little more hellish. And now, He’d sent me Ana, with all the fire and unpredictability of those women rolled into one tiny, terrifying package.

I was afraid to ask, but apparently, I enjoyed living on the edge. “Who did you hit, Precious?”

“Oh, no one,” she replied, nonchalantly clicking the final color into place before placing the solved cube back into the console. But I heard the silent yet.

I tried again. “Who
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