Katherine’s POVThen I heard him let out a sigh, not surprised but tired. “Oh. Yeah. Yeah, it is,” he said. “I wondered why some of the nurses gave me those looks, like I was some miracle walking in the hallway when I came to visit him. Now I get it. They remembered me. From the coma ward.” He gave a small laugh that had no real joy in it. “Small world, right?”“I can’t believe this.”“Yeah, well. He probably got a family discount.” He laughed before noticing that I didn’t care for his dry jokes. “Look just… Go in there, see him, say whatever you need to say, then walk out. You don’t owe him more than that. You never did.”I sighed. “Speaking of owing,” I said into the phone, “did you happen to lose two five year olds this morning?”“What?” His voice jumped, confused. “No, they’re right here watching… oh.” He stopped. Then I heard it in his voice as he realized. “Oh, no. They didn’t.”“They did,” I said flatly. “They stowed away. I just drove them around the suburbs in circles to make
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