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“Sorry,” he muttered each time. “Work issue.”
On Christmas Eve.
Julian, unmarried and always traveling, showed me photos from her latest trip but never asked how I was doing.
We ate. We laughed on cue. Christmas music played softly.
And then, as always, their eyes drifted to the envelopes beside my plate.
They were waiting.
That was when my game began.
I handed out the envelopes one by one, smiling like always.
“Merry Christmas, sweetheart.”
Jake opened his first.
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