Leo was already asleep.The boys Nanny met them at the door before they were fully inside, hands clasped, voice low. "He fought it until eight. I think he exhausted himself crying."Thomas said nothing.Piper pressed her lips together and looked away.Toby went up without much argument.The kind of quiet that only followed a child who had scared himself badly enough to want the safety of his own walls. Piper took him up, pulled the covers to his chin, and did the voices for exactly four pages of Where the Wild Things Are before his eyes gave out completely.She sat with him a moment longer than necessary.Her hand rested on his back, rising and falling with his breath.I missed you every single day, she thought.She pressed one quiet kiss to his temple, turned off the lamp, and slipped out.Thomas was at the table when she came downstairs.He'd put something together — garnished pasta, two glasses of water. Nothing elaborate. She sat.He sat across from her.The clock on the wall rea
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