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me?”
    “Yes. 
You know that isn’t true, don’t you?”
    “But it
is,” he said miserably.
    “Honey,
come here.”
    Kenny
slowly crossed the room and dropped down on the foot of his sister’s bed. 
Laura turned toward him and draped an arm over his shoulder.  “Okay, now, tell
me what you’re talking about.  Because Kenny, I can promise you one
thing—nothing that is happening between your folks has anything to do with
anything you’ve done or haven’t done.  As I was telling Krissy, both your
parents love you very much.”  She gave him a squeeze.  “And so do I.”
    He was
silent for a moment, but she noted his shoulders drooped further.  “I overheard
them one night.  They were in their bedroom, fighting.  I couldn’t make out
what they were saying, but I think I heard my name—and maybe Krissy’s…”
    Laura
drew him closer and kissed the top of his head.  “There you go, sweetie.  You
couldn’t discern exactly what they were saying.  You may not have heard them
correctly.  And even if they did say your names, it was probably because they
were both discussing how they want what’s best for you, because they love you
and your sister so much.”
    He
remained adamant.  “I know I heard my name.  And Dad…”
    “What?”
    “He
sounded so sad.”  He dropped his head and began crying.
    “Oh,
Kenny.”  Laura smoothed his hair off his brow and prayed for the right words. 
“Honey, I wish I could make things better for you and Krissy.  I wish I could
fix whatever is happening between your parents right now.  But, I’m afraid I
can’t.  But I know someone who can.” 
    She
took Kenny’s hand, and swiveled her body, to reach for Krissy’s, as well. 
“Let’s pray,” she said.

Chapter Four
                                       
    L aura
tiptoed out of Kenny’s room.  She had sat with him briefly, in order to assure
he was all right.  She felt relief he’d finally fallen asleep.  The little
fellow had school the next day and he needed his rest.
    She
paused at the door, and with a final glance at the sleeping child, turned and
promptly collided with what felt like a rock wall, and turned out to be Dalton
Jance.  Her right eye took the brunt of the impact.
    She
gasped.  “What…?”  She shook her head briskly, disoriented from the blow to her
eye.  She reached a hand to her face and found a lump had already breached the
brow.  “Ouch!” she muttered.
    “Laura!”
Dalton cried.  “Are you all right?”
    “I
think so.”  She furrowed her brow.  “What are you doing here?”
    “Didn’t
Thomas tell you?”
    “Tell
me what?”
     “I
live here.”
    Laura,
formerly sleep-deprived and disoriented, suddenly came wide awake and fully
alert.  “What?  Why ?”
    Dalton
chuckled, the deep timbre of his voice filling the narrow hallway.  “If I
didn’t know better, I’d think you weren’t especially happy to find me living
here.”
    “Just
surprised,” she told him, still reeling from the shock of coming face-to-face
with him at this late hour.  “What?  I mean…?”
    His
lips tugged into a smile.  “The lease expired on my condo.  I was considering
buying a home, but haven’t been able to find anything I really like.  Thomas
offered to let me stay here, since he said he could use the rent money to help
pay for his wedding.”
    “Oh,
okay.  I see.  Well, that’s…  Uh, well.  Okay.”  She turned to go.
    She
felt a gentle, but firm hand on her arm.  “Are you all right?  You seem a
little … off.”
    “You
aren’t the first to notice,” she muttered.
    He bit
back his laughter.  “You never struck me as … off.”  When he reached a gentle
hand to her head and smoothed back her hair, exposing the bump on her brow and
rapidly blackening eye, he winced.  “Concussed maybe, but never off .”
    Laura
chuckled.  “I’m okay, really.  But I think I will get to bed.” 
    It was
just too