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Her eyebrows lift instantly. Her gaze slides over my face, but again, it refuses to stick. “The kids are…” She sighs and, as she does, that mask cracks just enough to show me the human beneath it. “It was a hard night. Riley had a nightmare and she ended up waking the other two. When I finally managed to get them all back to sleep, Chloe was up with a nightmare of her own.” “And Jace?”

She hesitat