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“Where’s Jyll?”
“Emma, Lily, what’s going on?”
I knelt in front of the girls.
“Mom said goodbye, Daddy,” Emma said, blinking slowly. “She said goodbye forever.”
“What do you mean, forever? Did she say that?!”
Lily nodded, not looking at me, but her eyebrows were furrowed.
“She took her suitcases.”
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“She said goodbye forever.”
“And she hugged us, Daddy. For a long time. And she cried.”
“And she said you’d explain it to us,” Lily added. “What does that mean?”
I looked up at Mikayla. Her lips were trembling.
“I didn’t know what to do. They’ve been like this since I got here. I tried to talk to them, but… Look, Jyll was already out the door when I walked in. So, I don’t know —”
“She said you’d explain it to us.”
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I stood, heart pounding now, and walked to the bedroom.
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