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\u201cWhere is David?\u201d I rasped, my throat dry.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s parking the car, Elena. You know how he worries.\u201d Martha didn\u2019t look at me. Her eyes were darting around the hallway, scanning the nurses\u2019 station. She looked like a woman expecting a delivery, or perhaps an execution. \u201cBut look who I brought to cheer you up. Little\u00a0Leo<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0missed his step-mommy so much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She stepped aside, revealing the five-year-old boy standing in the doorway. Leo, David\u2019s son from his first marriage, looked smaller than usual. He was wearing his Sunday best\u2014a pressed collared shirt that looked uncomfortable\u2014and he was clutching a plastic sippy cup with a death grip.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere is David?\u201d I rasped, my throat dry. \u201cHe\u2019s parking the car, Elena. You know how he worries.\u201d Martha didn\u2019t look at me. Her eyes were darting around the hallway, scanning the nurses\u2019 station. She looked like a woman expecting a delivery, or perhaps an execution. \u201cBut look who I brought to cheer you up….<\/p>\n

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