Briony thought it was too much trouble. "No need to bother the driver—I can handle drop-offs and pick-ups myself."

"Oh, all right. I'll let the driver know then."

She ended the call, tucked her phone away, and headed back inside.

It was Saturday.

The twins didn't have preschool today. The moment they saw each other, they huddled together, giggling and playing, thick as thieves.

Watching her son and daughter get along so well, Briony felt a rare sense of peace settle over her heart.

Little Mario had become so much more outgoing lately, chattier too.

Especially this time-after two weeks apart, he seemed to have put on a little weight.

That evening, while bathing the kids, Briony noticed the change most clearly.

He really had filled out. Where once his ribs had been painfully obvious, now his round little belly was starting to catch up to Little Nina's.

Stewart and Lorna had truly been taking good care of him.

Briony watched her son and daughter splashing and shrieking with laughter in the

tub, and her feelings were unexpectedly complicated.

bedtime stories, once the kids had drifted off, Briony quietly slipped

door to find

one who managed all of little

to have changed so much in such

Briony learned that Lorna practiced martial arts, and every day she took Mario along to

Most families sent their kids in private cars, but Lorna insisted on

jump rope with Mario at

long moment after

worry that

at first that Ms. Riley might be unkind to the young master,” Carol admitted. "So

always

was scared

him when no one was around. I even asked Mario what he thought of her. Want to guess

he

said Ms. Riley was cool-she

Briony blinked.

Chased away bad guys?

guys?" she

he couldn't really explain. Just

her lips together,

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