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“Raven,” I gasped. “Don’t say that you’re not meant to have a mother.”

“Why not?” she countered with a steely look. “It’s how I feel.”

“Okay,” I nodded, wanting to diffuse the situation before it escalated into a fight. “That’s understandable. I don’t think anyone is ‘not meant’ to have something that’s supposed to be good, though. We’re not cursed or anything.”

The dubious look on her face said otherwise.

“Really,” I pushed. “What happened to Mom was an accident. Nothing more. She didn’t deserve it, and we didn’t deserve it.”

My heart tightened, and I looked down at my lap. We didn’t speak about Danica much. Raven had some therapy after her passing a decade before, but as for me, maybe I’d moved on too fast. I hadn’t predicted the ways Danica’s absence would affect Raven in the years to come. I’d focused on what the little girl Raven had lost, not what the teenager and young woman Raven would need.

“Yeah,” she said. “I know it wasn’t our fault.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Don’t worry, Da
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