Interrupt Me Again and I'll Crush You
Smiling, I said, "I love this music box the most, Mom. This is the best music box in the world because you made it."
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At the Ashcroft residence, Bianca frowned as she stared at her calendar. 15 days had passed without a single call or message from me.
The men she sent to Stillwater Creek reported that I spent my days in a run-down little convenience store or in an even shabbier activity room, teaching children how to dance. I seemed… genuinely content and happy.
For some reason, that stirred a strange, simmering anger in her.
How could I be happy in a place like that? Did I feel nothing for the Ashcrofts at all?