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“I thought that you were sleeping.”
“I heard you and Mama fighting.”
Grimacing, I wrapped my arms around her and stood up to bring her back to her bedroom. I rubbed her back and hoped that she would forget about this all because I didn’t want to explain why we had been fighting.
But if I found out that Mom had left Ana here to head down to Main Street, we were going to have some problems. I loved Mom, but I loved Ana more. I had been doing all this shit because I needed Ana to survive. I would fucking die for her.
After placing her in bed, I pulled the blankets over her small body and smiled at her. “Don’t worry about Mom and me. We were just talking. I’ll make sure that we’re quiet from now on, so you can sleep.”
“Yeah …” Ana yawned and turned onto her side, tucking one hand underneath her pillow and closing her eyes. “But Mama lied to you.”
My chest tightened. “What?”
“Mama lied to you, João. Mama and I did leave tonight.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked her.
“We went down to see the ocean, and then she visited some man at a restaurant. She told me not to tell you. He gave her some medicine to make her feel better.”
