Daddy, I found you a wife.
I joined her, cross-legged on the rug, green in hand.
"What're we building? Fort? Monster? Or... family adventure?"
Angel nodded, scribbling furious. Her little shoulder pressed mine, warm, trusting. For a second, Mason's poison faded.
This? This felt real.
Until the crayon snapped in her grip. She froze, staring at the broken half. Then, eyes huge, she pointed at the drawing. At the spot where our stick figures stood.
And there, scrawled in faded pencil, barely visible, like it'd bled through from the back of the page, was a word. And it wasn't her writing.
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