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Breaking Point

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Harlan leaned against the cool concrete wall outside the holding cells, the taste of stale coffee still bitter on her tongue. She had been standing here for twenty minutes, staring at the gray door that separated her from Emelia Reed. The girl had not asked for a blanket. She had not asked for food. She had only asked one thing when they brought her in: if he was okay.

The question had lodged itself in Harlan’s chest like a splinter she could not pull out. She had a daughter at home who was
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