Mark grasped his phone, which remained on silent, its screen flashing incessantly.

Instead of immediately answering, he glanced towards the study’s door, through which Cecilia had disappeared.

A lump formed in Mark’s throat.

He then pressed the answer button and Laura’s voice came through.

The young girl sounded a bit uneasy.

Mark lit a cigarette and held it delicately between his fingers. He asked softly, “It’s late. Why aren’t you asleep?”

Laura replied quietly, “I’m scared.”

a surge of sympathy for

and

in an unfamiliar environment, a

requested that she pass the

then did Paul’s parents learn that Laura was having trouble

assured Mark that they would take good

heavily on her. She had been deprived of a family’s

feeling a surge of mixed

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and returned to

enough, Cecilia

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