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I spent the last hour listening to Hazel lecture me. She and Asher had taken it upon themselves to arrange for us all to move to a cabin in the middle of nowhere California. No one had consulted me about these grandiose plans. No one ever consulted me about much of anything anymore. After Addy died, we all learned to cope the best way we knew how. That wound up leaving some of us on the back burner.
Hazel had Asher and the kids, Beau had his pack, Zeke had Emma, but where did that leave me? I felt like a cog in the machine. The only time I got any attention was if someone was busy, and I was the only option left. That’s how we wound up having Ivy and Ian. Asher and Beau were busy rebuilding Elder Jackson’s green house and Hazel was bored. She hasn’t touched me since then and that wa
