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maybe half a second too long.
“Hey, sweetheart,” I said, because that was the line I always started with. “Ready to go?”
Emma didn’t move.
Ms. Donnelly lowered her voice.
“Ma’am, Emma said she doesn’t want to go home with you alone.”
For one suspended second, the hallway seemed to tilt.
I actually thought I had misheard her. My mind reached for other meanings,continue reading …
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