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She closed her bedroom door.
The excuses kept coming:
“We had a costume rehearsal.”
“Emma let me borrow it.”
I told myself I was being paranoid. Kids shared things all the time. A hoodie here, a bracelet there. It was normal.
That’s what I repeated to myself as I stood in the kitchen, watching Ellie drop her backpack onto the table. That day, she had on a delicate silver bracelet with a heart charm—something far too expensive to be casual.
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