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You belong with me. Ana went very still. She could feel it, that bitterness bubbling inside of her, a twisting black thing that always lurked. For weeks she had kept it locked away.

Now the blackness poured from her mouth of its own will. You left me, She whispered. You left me behind, but you took Dinah and Ava. Now she pulled from her mother's embrace, not in anger but icy, piercing calm.

You left me, and I think about it every night.