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But Lacey’s reaction to Tressa’s outburst the other night She hadn’t said a lot, but it had been enough to tell Jem that she’d found the behavior outside the bounds of acceptable

He’d found it pretty tame

The disparity in their reactions to the saif Tressa was abusing their son in any way

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p; “Why do you think Mommy should be in trouble?”

“I don’t,” Levi said, his chin to his chest

“Levi, look at me”

The boy did

“This is really i that has ever happened before in your whole life”

Hoas that for scaling down the dra out of his mouth

Levi’s eyes ide, his mouth open as he nodded

And Je around for weeks

“Tell uided by an instinct he hadn’t known he’d had

“I fell”

No mention of Tressa