On Christmas

said. “Then listen to me. You stay with our babies. Don’t call your parents. Don’t warn them. Let the police do what they need to do.”

“I want to go there.”

“I know.”

“I want to ask them how they could do this.”

“I know.”

“I want to—”

“I know, Claire.”

His voice broke then.

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