When she went downstairs, she saw Mabel and Robert at the kitchen table, both with cups of coffee in front of them. They looked exhausted. It didn’t take long for the twins to drain all of their energy.

“Hey.” Rory said, as meek as she had ever been. “I’m sorry again for the trouble I caused. I really, really am.”

“Honestly, Rory, I don’t even know what to do with either one of you right now,” her father said. While her dad often seemed perfect to her, she realized that the thing about Robert was that he was gone all day and Seth never dared speak to his father the way he spoke to his mother and sister. But at the same time, she...

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