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142. Imaginary Mother

Author: Kiki Jones
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HAYLEE

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“Everything okay?” Xalen asked, pushing himself into a sitting position the second he sensed that I was no longer in his arms.

I didn’t know how to answer that question. In my mind, I was certain that what I saw was real, but in that same mind, confusion dwelled, pressing heavily against everything I knew—everything I had believed all my life.

I mean, didn’t my dad hate me because I looked like my mom? Goddess, I looked nothing like that woman.

She could pass for milk, and her voice could heal a broken soul. How could I even compare to her? Plus, wasn’t she supposed to be dead? Did I just commune with a ghost? A fine-ass one at that?

Gosh, I was meant to despise her, yet with her gone, I felt empty. I felt like I shouldn’t exist without her. Like it was a crime to exist without her. I didn’t know who the hell this woman was—

“She said she named you. She said she is our mom,” Liya blurted into my mind while I stared into space, unable to form the right words to say to Xalen
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