“There you are, sweetheart. I’ve been searching everywhere for you.”
Then she touched his cheek affectionately.
I stared at my husband.
Kyle closed his eyes before quietly saying, “Alice, she’s my mother.”
I thought I had misheard him.
“You told me your mother abandoned you when you were six.”
“My father told me that for thirty years.”
Gladys picked up Mia’s stuffed rabbit and hugged it to her chest.
“The little girl gave me her room,” she said. “I can’t sleep without this.”
My eyes snapped toward Kyle.“You made Mia sleep in the kitchen?”
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