Chapter 139

**Arthur

“But I want MAMA! I want to sleep with MAMA!” Daphne cried as I tucked her into bed.

I sighed and wriggled her favorite stuffed bunny in next to her, hoping it would help. “I’ll read you a story, but then you have to go to sleep. Here. In your room.”

“But I want to sleep with Mama,” Daphne pouted, her pale, unseeing eyes filling with tears.

“Daphne, that just isn’t possible right now,” I