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“Carter, the person you should be questioning is Theo, not me.” Sharon’s voice was laced with thinly veiled contempt and clear impatience. “If you called just to interrogate me about this, then don’t bother calling again. I won’t pick up anymore.”

Carter’s voice came through, cold enough to cut. “Stay where you are. If you try to take Theo and leave, I’ll have no choice but to have someone detain you.”

Sharon had been planning to look around the amusement park after hearing Theo might be there.

But hearing that haughty, commanding tone in his voice changed her mind entirely.

“Carter,” she said, her voice calm but sharp, “you once told me that if you need something from someone, you’d better learn how to ask nicely.”

Carter sounded almost incredulous. “Ask? You think I’m asking you for something?”

She didn’t wait for a response. “You’re not asking-you’re ordering. And who do you think you are, exactly? Why should I take orders from you? I hope you get one thing straight. I am not your servant. You don’t get to bark orders at me.”

With that, she hung up.

When she returned to the bench by the lake, Xavier was gone.

Matty had gone to use the restroom, which was tucked away behind the trees past the central lake.

Sharon was just about to walk in that direction when a loud splash broke the still air.

Then came shouting.

“Someone fell in!”

my God, two kids! They look about five

“Where are their parents?”

anyone know how to swim? Somebody

but Sharon’s heart

through the crowd, she spotted a small figure flailing in

Matty.

Panic surged through her.

Matty couldn’t swim.

the last of the bystanders

Matty from the water. He was limp and

are you okay?” Sharon was already pressing water from Matty’s chest, her hands

Matty coughed violently, spitting up a mouthful of water, eyes barely

her familiar face. That quiet beauty. Her eyes were filled with nothing but worry, laid

welled up. He threw his arms around her, sobbing. “Sharon… I thought… I thought I’d never

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words of comfort, smoothing his drenched hair

she gently ask, “Matty

answer, the second child who had fallen in was