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“Great, now she will not sleep tonight,” Calliope sighed, lifting her up Gigi stirred gru her head in her mom’s neck “I’ll take her up, while you…well, you take care of the home front”

“And here I thought you’d take charge of that,” I said, handing her Gigi’s dolphin

“To but that only succeeded in waking Gigi

She rubbed her eyes and glanced around At seeingto reach for me, so I took her

“Papa, you’re back Where’d you go?”

“He ith le in my arms “Daddy and I had stuff to talk about it”

“Me?” she asked, looking at my face

“Yes, you,” I answered tapping her nose “Did you like the movies?”

She shook her head “Saura wanted to play Then Nana read us stories Daddy, can we go play?”

“Sure,” I said, brushing her hair out of her face She tried to grin but yawned “But are you sleepy?”

“No,” she lied

I laughed “Really?”

She nodded However, the aone e stepped out and I saw both of ive me this moment

“Fine, how about you get everything ready and we play tonight Just you,her cheek I held her for a long time, part of me still shocked she was here, in my arms

“We have a lot of stuff we have to do, sweetheart Daddy gave us a whole list of chores,” Calliope said, co back to take her