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“Jace?

The apartment is eerily quiet.

“Riley? Chloe?”

Clara had a last-minute emergency come up so she couldn’t be here today for the evening shift. I’d called Derek while I was at work and begged him to take care of the kids. Sober. I stressed on that stipulation until he told me to “stop fucking nagging.”

Once he agreed, I spent the remaining two hours of my workday sweating through my gree