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Finally all that was left was the two of us and Catherine and Jess “Those worinned as ent into the living roo the hem of her black skirt toward her knees

“True,” said Catherine, as sitting on Dht sleeveless pink top andthe entire Lycra industry in business“Sorry about the sister invasion,” Catherine added “I didn’t expect Ani to shoith all the twins in tow”

“That’s a surprising nu her coffee

“Oh I know, it’s kind of bizarre Lena and Marley’s boys are twins, too” Catherine said, then took a huge bite of bagel

“Did they use a sperm donor?” Jess asked conversationally

Catherine nodded and said around a s, donated sperm, and Marley’s uterus”

“I didn’t know you had a gay sister,” I said to Dmitri

He shrugged and said, “Guess it never ca at the carpet

I looked at him closely and asked, “Baby, are you ok?”

“Yeah,” he said “But God, I can’t believe I acted like that in front of e of some sort of breakdown”

“Acted like what?”

“I al in front of them,” he said

“So what’s wrong with that?”

“Nothing,” Catherine chimed in “Your sisters and I love you, and we really don’t expect you to be strong all the time It’s perfectly ok to show some vulnerability sometimes”

“It’s really not,” he said quietly “Not with the for them”

Jess asked, “So as the upshot of all of that? Do you knohat you’re going to do to get Sokolov out of the picture?”

“Not yet But at least we know D after themselves,” I said