Ethan Carter POVSummer came slowly.Serena grew the way babies grow very fast, and it surprised us every time. One week she only slept, ate, cried sometimes, and looked at the world like she was not sure about it. The next week she was looking at people’s faces with her big dark eyes, reaching for things with her tiny hands, and smiling.Her smile looked so much like Aria’s smile that the first time I really saw it, I had to sit down.“She smiled at me,” I told Aria. She was in the kitchen making tea like nothing big had happened.“She’s been smiling for a week,” Aria said.“Not like that.”Aria looked at me over her cup. “Like what?”“Like she knew what she was doing,” I said. “Like she knew I needed that smile.”Aria smiled softly. “She's Carter,” she said. “Of course she knows what she’s doing.”Mason was sitting at the kitchen table eating cereal and listening to us like he always listened to grown-up talks. He looked up.“I smiled early too,” he said. “Mommy told me.”“You did,”
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