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my suitcase in her hands.
I saw Lily’s phone.
I felt rain soaking through my dress.
“No,” I said quietly. “Family does not throw a grieving widow into the rain.”
Victoria recoiled.
“That was grief. I wasn’t myself.”
I stepped back before she could touch me.
“That was not grief. That was cruelty.”
Lily appeared behind her mother, eyes red, mascara beginning continue reading …
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