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“OUT!”

A door creaked upstairs.

My whole body went cold.

“Mommy?”

Zion.

I looked up.

He was standing at the top of the stairs.

Looking between me and his father.

And something inside me fucking snapped.

Not in the screaming way.

The opposite.

Everything in me got calm.

“Go back to bed, baby.”

“What happened?”

“Nothing.”

Xay looked upstairs.

“What’s up, man?”

Zion didn’t answer him.

He looked at me.

“Mommy, you okay?”

I smiled.

“I’m okay. Daddy was just leaving.”

Xay looked at me.

I looked right back.

“Right?”

He swallowed.

“Yeah.”

Zion stayed there.

Xay grabbed his bag.

“I’ll call you tomorrow.”