room—”
“Stop,” I said gently. “Jackson is fine. He’s watching cartoons at my house. And Barnaby is sitting on his feet, so he literally cannot go anywhere.”
She started to cry. “I tried so hard. I work fifty hours a week. I just couldn’t make the deposit for an apartment.”
“I know,” I said.
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