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teya kept close. sorana did not talk, but the electric current seemed to flow between them, an ebb for mother and daughter. teya bit her lip and searched for the words. "i not think daddy leave on purpose. he loves you — so much, sorana." her throat hurt, and now the same tears stabbed behind her own eyes. "i think — something happen. i look for him, bridget too. and eljay."
and that felt like a failure also to say, to admit she had just moved on without waiting for reyes. but the truth was their relationship had been over before he ever disappeared. 
but that was hers with him. and this was sorana's with her father. "i think he come back, and i think when he does you — tell him how you hurt."
her turn to struggle, to look quickly away so that her baby did not see the wetness welling in her own eyes. "reyes always is your father, even if — even if he and mama not together. families can be like that." slowly she made herself look at sorana, openly, the grief and perhaps a touch of anger at the redfurred man clear in her eyes if only for a moment and eclipsed by love in the second.