Ariel asked after twenty minutes of silence.Madeline started to answer with an emphatic “no,” but what if the blood test made her out to be a liar? What then? “I don’t know, baby,” she settled on saying.“You mean, he could be?” Russ questioned with simple caution. “He looks like him,” the little boy said.“Yes, baby. I know he does.” And he sounds like him, too.“Well, where has he been?” Ariel asked. “Why are we going home?”“How come he’s not coming home with us?” Russ inquired. “Did you say something to make him mad?”“What?” Madeline glanced up into her rearview mirror to seek her son’s gaze. “What makes you think I would say something to make him mad?”Russ lowered his eyes and shrugged.Madeline returned her attention to the road, stinging from her son’s words.“How come we didn’t get a chance to talk to him?” Russ questioned.“Because…”“Because why?”“Just because.” She could think of nothing better to say.“That’s no reason,”
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