The phone rang after the quiet one rolled off her arm.Lily-Rose was still on the floor. Her shoulder was dead. She stood, shut the children’s door, and took the call in the back room.Reed.“I’m on the road,” he said. “I left town. I said I would. I’m not turning around unless you tell me to.”“Don’t turn around.”“I wasn’t asking to sleep on your street. I called because she asked me to say one thing with my mouth, not on a screen Mara can take.”Lily-Rose sat on the bed. The swing outside was a black cut in the glass.“Say it.”Reed was quiet a second. Engine noise. A truck passing him.“When the month is over, does she get a room again, or is that finished?”Lily-Rose looked at the hall. Cartoon gone. House still.“I don’t answer that at midnight on a child’s sleep.”“I’m not asking you to answer me. I’m asking you to hear it. She would not put it in a text. She said if I got you, I should ask. Then I should go.”“You’re going.”“I’m going. If she gets hurt, I told you I would say
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