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“Okay” She frowns, and it reminds me of Jules’s

I clear

“Jules and I found out so news You remember when Gamma explained to you that Jules and I are ot”

Her bottooes between her teeth “Yeah She said that Daddy’s head was sick and it made him tell some lies”

I nod “Yes That’s right Well, we found out that there was another lie he told”

Her lip begins to wobble, and her eyes turn glassy with tears

Fuck, this is so damn hard

With her free hand, Jules grabs one of Aria’s “It’s okay to cry,” she tells her tenderly

Aria sniffs, and I’m so proud of her when she pushes the need to cry away This little girl acts so much older than her almost seven years

“I’irl,” she says stubbornly with a jutted chin “Tell me what Daddy lied about”

“Do you kno Jules was asleep for a lot of years?” She nods I look at Jules for a brief moment then back down to Aria “Well, she had a baby while she was asleep The baby was mine and hers”

Her eyes turn wide “But how did she have a baby? Don’t you have to be awake to have a baby?”

Aria looks at Jules when she’s the one to answer

“Most of the time you do, but the kind of sleep I was in, I couldn’t wake up My brain wouldn’t let me” She releases my hand and lifts up the bottom of her shirt until the scar on her lower stoht here?” She points to the four-inch silvery line and Aria nods “To get the baby out, they had to cut my stomach open”

Her mouth drops open “Didn’t it hurt?”