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PART 2
—Your father will be there too… and brings people.
Wesley said it as if my father was a storm approaching down the road. No photo description available.
I was in the kitchen, with June asleep to my chest and the video of the party open on my laptop. Cookbooks
I saw Margaret again lifting the black necklace.
I saw sixty adults laughing again while my baby cried.
I saw Wesley stand still again when his mother reached out to our daughter.
— What people? —I asked for.
Wesley swallowed.
—I don’t know.
—My father said Thomas Ellis called a general, a military lawyer and someone from child protection last night.
The word child protection finally hurt him.
Not because June had been humiliated.
Because the outside world was about to look at the Pembrokes without the filters of their money.
—Nora, please —said—. This can be resolved privately.