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Adele sat in a small room off the kitchen wing. It was usually used as Blanche’s sewing room but everything was removed save the chair she sat on. She was lucky they gave her a chair. She wondered if Bernard was still alive. Both of them faced a death sentence. She sobbed loudly.
Rene came into the room. “If you don’t shut up, I’ll make it so you do.”
That was it, I’ll never see my babies again. How could I have done this when all he did was help me?She heard noises out in the kitchen. She tried to stop crying and listen.
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Armand was horrified at what was done to his baby’s face. The fact that Sean escaped and made it to somewhere Armand could find him was a miracle. Armand supported him on one side, Martin the other. They got him out of the store and into the Navigator. Pierre had a blanket that Armand tucked around him. They drove quickly and got to the house in ten minutes. Sean groaned over every bump in the road.