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"I shall get him, Maeve," Selena answered

Maeve frowned, worked her lower lip nervously with her teeth, gripped the anilazed her eyes "Why does he cry?"

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Selena gazed across the table at her "Maybe he does not know it is you"

Maeve swiped at an invisible fly "The bathwater is too hot Bring the wine"

Ian closed his eyes and sagged forward, resting his elbows on the wobbly table

Maeve ju up her skirt, she cast a quick backward glance, then surged toward Ian, reaching for hied hard "I can't find reen eyes "Help me find my baby"

Ih Ian's head My baby Oh, God, my baby Herbert ant to see his son The words catapulted into his brain, cycling through in an endless litany Then caht Panic Fear Desperation

His mother's emotions swirled around him, sucked him in He could feel her anxiety; it caused his own heartbeat to speed up

And then suddenly, through the redat the cockeyed table in thel

ayers of de him

The revelation stunned hiinally conscious of reality when she was in this state, but now he saw the truth She was in there soination, the ed her She was there, shtened and alone "Mother?"

She blinked up at hiht that she would see hiht him to his feet beside her

She swiped at another nonexistent fly and shook her head as if to clear it "The rain is ruining the rhubarb"

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