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“And?”

“He had that nighty the next day when I brought him home”

“Was that the first time?”

“No The first couple of days after he broke his arm he was off”

“And no other tied noticeably over the past months

“Not that coe every day, it see to be held The next he’s pushing away froet down He wantsit hi that see or abnormal”

She didn’t see Levi every day—or hadn’t until recently Mara had known hi toddlers and preschoolers every day She’d know about nores

Still, Mara wasn’t a professional counselor “Have you talked to Tressa about the clinginess?”

“No But she’s talked to htmare”

“What does she say about it?”

“That he’s afraid you’re going to take him away from me That he won’t be able to live with me anymore”

She’d known Her instincts were still honed—in spite of her personal involves off

“Hoould he have knohy I was in your house? Or why he came to my office? Did you tell him?”

“Of course not Absolutely not He’s a four-year-old There’s no way he’d understand that on any level that could be okay for him”

“Agreed But you’d be surprised what soence, still believe prettytheir parents tell the to hide, will s”