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I dug throughthe way I’d been given herbal tea at sorocery store I shoved aside all the other stuff I never opened, some jams Mom had sent, a box of stoned wheat crackers that cah, in a little cheap basket, I found a selection of tea packets tied together with a red bow

Peppere Spice Blackberry I snatched up the peppermint and filled a pot ater Moured hot water was hot water

As I waited for it to warm up, I stared out theat the empty trees, bare li up in some other house somewhere in the city She seemed so sure that her son wasfor her

I still didn’t know anything If Manuel belonged to me, the test wouldn’t make a difference at first There was a birth certificate to change Legal stuff Child support She was from another country That would make it complicated We’d probably need a lawyer

My head started clanging and I pressed the heel of my hand into et things to soet Corabelle with me If she still wantedone out I didn’t even have health insurance for myself, s

I walked through the living roos Scrape enough together to get us started The raise was going to help, once I got back to work I had to do that, pronto Bud had given roup policy I was eligible for now

Ti in the kitchen, so I went back and du I didn’t even know the siar in it I carried it back to the bedroo them on a rickety table beside the bed

She was still asleep, her brows drawn together like she was drea fitfully, or in some pain The tea needed to cool a bit, so I could let her sleep

If there was ever a day that could change your life, this one was it

33: Corabelle

Tina waited for us by the doors to the lab "We’re actually going to al stuff involved here, so I asked one of the social workers to coistered that this ht the look "I haven’t peeked I don’t know anything So don’t try and read the results in ot the poker face of a hard-core gambler"

"I bet you do," Gavin said