The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

secret,” he added.

“She’s not a secret,” I said. “She’s a person.”

He stepped back and let me inside.

The house was half-packed.

Boxes. Bare walls.

He was getting ready to run again.

“She’s my daughter, Lena,” he said. “I’m the one who raised her.”

“You stole her.”

He flinched, but not from the accusation.

From the flatness of my voice.

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