Brian stiffened. “She’s your granddaughter.”
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Evelyn didn’t reply. “You better get going.”
I knelt in front of Sophie. “We’ll be back soon. Just four days.”
Sophie clutched her bunny and nodded. “Okay.”
We drove away, and I kept looking back until she was gone from sight.
The trip was a blur of meetings and hotel rooms, but I wasn’t present for any of it.
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I sat through presentations and took notes I never read. I smiled when I had to. But my mind was always somewhere else. With Sophie.
Every morning, I called Evelyn. Every evening, I called again.
“Can I talk to Sophie?” I would ask.
“She’s in the bath”, “She’s tired”, “She’s already asleep.”
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