Chapter 14I stopped breathing when I saw Lily on Vanessa's phone. Five seconds of my life ending on a video.Rook read the text under it twice. His jaw locked."She coached her," he said. His voice was flat. "Lily doesn't even know what that means. Vanessa told her to say it.""Doesn't matter," Helen said. She was still standing on the sidewalk with the two cops behind her, watching us. "The judge will see a five year old saying the nanny sleeps in Dad's bed. Optics are everything in family court.""Mara doesn't sleep in my bed," Rook said."She slept on the couch last night," I said quietly. "With me. After the nightmares. We fell asleep holding Lily between us."Helen closed her eyes for one second. "Of course you did.""She was scared," I said. "What was I supposed to do.""Not be in his apartment at two am, for starters," Helen said. She didn't sound mean. Just tired. "But that's done. We deal with what's in front of us."Lily was asleep against Rook's shoulder, bunny dangling fr
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