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the answer had already been practiced into her bones.
“I never met him.”
A pulse moved hard behind his ribs.
“She’s sick,” the girl added, almost as if she owed him an explanation for existing. “My mama. So I sell after school.”
The tray shook slightly in her hands. Not from fear. From weight.
Micah had spent most of his adult life being decisive. He had continue reading …
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