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Nicole

“D

o you expect me to believe you?” Veronica asks softly.

It’s taken me all day to work up the courage to call my sister. I had to process Marcus’s phone call enough to know my next move.

“I don’t expect anything, Ronnie.” I swallow hard when her old nickname slips out. I didn’t mean to use it. That was the name I whispered in the dark when we were kids placed in a new home