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Yet she cared about Jeood father The best Doing a job solo that usually took two people And doing it better than most, in her admittedly prejudiced opinion

“I’h,” she had to add “Tressa’s story about the swirab to haul Levi out of the water wouldn’t have caused bruising all along his torso”

“No, but the fact that she’d held on to hi his head underwater, then picking it up and learning to move his arms and kick his feet, would certainly do so”

What healthy parent held their kid so tightly they were bruising hith of time?

“Do you think it’s possible she was pissed at hi his head underwater over and over?”

The scenario fit exactly what Levi had described

“I don’t,” Jes Tressa wouldn’t do Purposely hurting Levi is one of them”

“You sound so sure”

“I am sure”

“Can I ask why?”

“Because my ex-wife thinks she needsto hurt ain”

He believed what he was saying beyond the shadow of a doubt Lacey was convinced of that much

She wanted to believe him, too

But she drove home with a heavy heart

Soht under their noses