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Cleo Returns

Alicia’s POV

It was a knock later that day that startled me out of my gaze. I sat up slowly on the bed, as the door opened. Andy popped her head in and looked concerned for me, and my two boys rushed in and jumped on the bed, disrupting my train of morose thoughts.

“Mommy! Where have you been?!” It was Dante who yelled out that question while Ashford rushed to hug me and murmured a low good morning.

I had been asleep after a long night, I wanted to tell them but I knew I couldn’t. They were still kids and I was determined to preserve as much of their innocence as I could.

Their fathers may be in the mafia but I certainly wasn’t going to let their lives be surrounded by gory details this early on.

Communicating my gratitude to Andy with a smile and nod, I got a warm smile back from her.

“Ive just been a little under the weather,” I assured the boys, while chancing a glance at the clock on then bedside table. The time read 1.24pm.

It was time to get up. And time to properly think about
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