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The King Tiffany Reisz 8780K 2023-09-03

Not tensuitcases into her car He heard her saying so to her parents, and Søren replied with one word--attorney No matter what she did, where she went, her first phone call needed to be to a lawyer

When it was tisley put her coat and shoes on her Søren watched him while he tied her tiny laces and zipped her into her coat He had to tell her five tiet her mittens on her hands But finally she was dressed and warm, and he swooped her into his arms and carried her out to the car, Søren and Annabelle behind thesley buckled Claire into her seat He made sure she had her blanket and her unicorn tucked in with her before tapping the end of her nose in a goodbye

"Thank you," Annabelle said Her face had a ghostly pallor She see sick all over the place He couldn’t blame her If someone showed up at his doorstep and said soht have trouble keeping his breakfast down, as well She gave Søren a phone nuuessed it was her parents where she would flee noith her daughter Søren promised to keep in touch, and he asked her to write hied that she would and then swore to him with all her heart that she would make sure his father never knew he’d come to see her

"He wanted a son and was beyond disappointed that I had a girl He’s been--" Annabelle stopped and looked panic-stricken

"Are you pregnant?" Søren asked, not the question a teenage boy would ever--should ever--ask a married woman in her thirties But he asked it with authority, and bowing to his authority she answered it

"No," she said "I lied and told him I wasn’t on birth control any for a son"

"I’iti"

"I won’t give hi him Please, keep Elizabeth’s name out of it If you have to nasley said, in a panic "Don’t do that"

"Kingsley, this is not--"

"It iswhat Søren would say before he said it "You told me your father broke your arm when you were eleven I don’t want hied "I won’t put you in danger I owe youeverything"

"Keep my sister safe That’s all I ask"

She rose up on her toes and kissed Søren on the cheek

"You’re alelcome to visit your sister," she said "Always You, too," she said to Kingsley "I think Claire’s in love with you"