(Hailey's POV)
The question is so innocent and so devastating that I have to look away.
"I don't know yet."
"But Charlie needs his mommy." Wendy says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world, because to her it is. "Mommies and their children should be together. That's just how it is."
"Sometimes things are complicated—"
"But Charlie needs her." Wendy insists, her little face scrunched with the effort of explaining something she clearly thinks is obvious. "He gets scared without her. He doesn't like strangers. He has to have the same things in the same order or he gets upset. Uncle Samuel can't do that." She pauses. "I know because I've seen it. When she's not there, Uncle Samuel never does anything for Charlie except yell at him. Charlie cries. He always cries when Aunt Caroli
