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Luckily, it was his father who answered the phone, not Ava. Even though Tony had told Cassandra that his sister couldn’t read the thoughts of anyone who wasn’t in the same room with her, he still didn’t like lying to Ava, as if all the years of knowing she could pick out the truth from his mind had made him gun-shy no matter what the situation.
“I can understand why Cassandra would decide to go home,” Henry said. He sounded more relaxed this morning, possibly because Ava was there to trade shifts keeping an eye on Sophia. “There isn’t much she can do here, unfortunately. But it was nice of her to stay over, just in case the situation changed, rather than turn around and go straight back to Arizona.”
“Yeah, she wanted to be sure,” Tony replied. “But she talked to her prima, and they de
