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Millie’s question stayed in the room long after she asked it.
“What happens when Daddy comes to get me?”
Her fingers twisted into the front of my shirt, and I could feel the fear behind the question even though she was trying hard not to show it. For most of her life, Havoc had been the person who decided where she lived, when I saw her, and when she disappeared again. Of course she believed he could simply show up and take her whenever he wanted.
I smoothed her hair away from her face. “He can’t take you away from me anymore.”
Millie frowned. “But don’t daddies get to take their kids when they want? They don’t get in trouble because it’s their kid.”
My chest tightened at how simple the world still seemed from where she stood. Parents had rules other people didn’t. Daddies got to
