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seat and scare the bejesus out of me.”
    â€œThat sounds terrifying.”
    Connie nodded and smiled. “If you need anything, text or e-mail me. Even when I’m in class, I can usually get back to people that way. But the girls are really self-sufficient. Try to be at least within earshot of them, but you don’t need to be on top of them all the time.”
    Jane nodded. She could handle that.
    â€œFeel free to bring along a book or a magazine or summer homework or anything,” Connie said. “I know you’re giving up a lot of time to be here, so I don’t want you to feel like you have to watch them every second.”
    Jane smiled because that was very good news. She had totally planned to watch them every second.
    â€œAnd if you’re hungry, take whatever you want from the fridge or the cabinets. Let me know if there’s anything you like that we don’t have. Especially lunch-wise, since you’ll need to feed yourself and the girls every day.”
    Connie must have caught Jane’s scared look. “It doesn’t have to be anything elaborate. Sandwiches, fruit. Rory doesn’t eat bread. She’s not allergic or anything—she just doesn’t eat it—so I make her cheese roll-ups or crackers with peanut butter.”
    Connie finished packing up her bag and let out a deep sigh. “All right. I’ll see you around five!” she said.
    Jane went back down to the basement and kept an eye on the time, but it seemed to be moving in the wrong direction when the girls decided they wanted to play hide-and-seek. They would hide and Jane would have to find them. And according to the girls, all games of hide-and-seek had to be started from the living room.
    Jane threw open the basement door at the top of the stairs and felt it crash into someone.
    â€œAh!” Teo’s voice came from behind the door.
    The girls slipped around Jane and out of the basement while Teo stood there rubbing his exposed toes in his flip-flops.
    â€œI’m so sorry!” Jane said. “I thought you’d already left for work.”
    â€œIt’s cool. It’s not a big deal. I didn’t need those particular toes,” he said. “Crap, I never cleaned up the basement, did I?”
    Jane shook her head, and Teo glanced at the time on his phone.
    â€œIt’s cool,” Jane said. “I’ll clean it up. It’s the least I can do, since I just hobbled you. The girls will help. Right, girls?”
    They looked blankly at Jane.
    â€œDon’t you want to help Teo out?” she asked them.
    They looked at her, and then at Teo, and then at one another before they started dancing around and yelling, “Yes! We love to help!”
    â€œYeah, we’ll take care of it for you. After we play hide-and-seek.”
    Teo grinned and squeezed her shoulder. “Good luck with hide-and-seek, and I totally owe you one. Thanks.”
    Jane smiled as she stood in the living room with her eyes closed and counted to fifty, as the girls had instructed her. If Teo was going to be a nice guy this summer, it would definitely help balance out the pain of Ravi.
    When Jane got to fifty, she yelled, “Ready or not, here I come!”
    Checking upstairs first seemed like a good idea, since she hadn’t heard the door to the basement open.
    Buck had done a lot of work on the house over the years, putting on an addition and reconfiguring the layout. It was like a completely different home. Jane was met with a long hallway of closed doors when she got upstairs, and she tried to listen for giggles, but there was complete, eerie silence.
    Maybe the girls hadn’t gone upstairs; maybe they went outside to hide, even though Jane had told them outside was off-limits. Or maybe they had left completely and were on their way to Acapulco, for all Jane knew.
    She tried to imagine breaking the news to Connie and Buck that somehow she had lost all three children while