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For several minutes, no one spoke. The apartment had been designed for entertaining, not living. Glass walls overlooked the Hudson, the furniture had never known fingerprints, and the kitchen contained more polished stone than food. Four exhausted boys had changed that in less than ten minutes. Milo curled up at one end of the sofa with a blanket around his shoulders. Mason sat cross-legged on the rug, carefully lining up four mugs of hot chocolate. Max had discovered the remote and was studying it with the serious concentration of an engineer. Micah leaned against Mara’s side, his eyes drifting shut. I stood in the kitchen, watching them as if they might disappear if I looked away.

  PART 2 For several minutes, no one spoke. The apartment had been designed for entertaining, not living. Glass walls overlooked the Hudson, the furniture had never known fingerprints, and …

For several minutes, no one spoke. The apartment had been designed for entertaining, not living. Glass walls overlooked the Hudson, the furniture had never known fingerprints, and the kitchen contained more polished stone than food. Four exhausted boys had changed that in less than ten minutes. Milo curled up at one end of the sofa with a blanket around his shoulders. Mason sat cross-legged on the rug, carefully lining up four mugs of hot chocolate. Max had discovered the remote and was studying it with the serious concentration of an engineer. Micah leaned against Mara’s side, his eyes drifting shut. I stood in the kitchen, watching them as if they might disappear if I looked away. Read More