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please.”
    Daniel glanced at her like there wasn’t anything else to tell. “He’ll make the call.”
    “Just like that? No…strings attached?”
    “No, no strings attached.”
    Sofia chuckled dryly. “Baby, I love you and I hate to say this, but you’re so lying to me, I can hear it in your voice.”
    “He asked to be in my life.”
    Sofia’s jaw dropped again and her tummy flipped. “And…what did you say?” He squeezed the steering wheel, turning his knuckles white. “And just to let you know, I’m totally okay with that,” she added.
    “Well I’m fucking not.”
    “But you agreed?”
    “Yes. I agreed. Like an idiot.”
    “No. No Daniel, like a hero. You put your feelings aside for your brother, that’s what I love about you, that’s the man I’ve always seen in you.”
    “Yes for him. And that’s all. ”
    Sofia’s heart ached at hearing the pain in his voice. Likely pain Daniel didn’t even notice. The pain of not having a dad that loved you. “So…how do you plan on accommodating him?”
    Daniel gave one bitter laugh. “Can you believe I invited him to Thanks Giving?” The muscle in the corner of his jaw ticked. “ Fucking angelic, right?”
    “You did what you had to sweetie. I love you. I’m proud of you.” Sofia turned in her seat a little, excited. “Oh my God, so when does he get out?”
    “When he gets out. That’s what the dipshit said.”
    Sofia gasped, unable to stop smiling. “And so you’re thinking soon, that’s why you’re thinking Sarah doesn’t need to go visit.”
    “Yes.”
    Sofia squealed her excitement and pulled Daniel’s hand to her lips and kissed it. He flexed his fingers, pressing them into her mouth, seeming to want much more. “Are you excited honey?”
    He gasped. “That’s an understatement. But it’s hard to be too excited until I see him home.”
    “Wow, Dara and Sarah are going to be…thrilled.”
    “Listen. A bout Dara.”
    Sofia turned to him, waiting, her stomach uneasy with his tone.
    “How…sure are we that she’s actually pregnant?”
    “ Whaaaat? What do you mean how sure?”
    “I mean she says she is but how do we know she’s…”
    “Not lying? Daniel, I don’t think she’d stoop to that level, I mean she’d know we’d find that out, why would she even try?”
    “I don’t know, why would she say she lost fifty pounds when really she’d gained seventy-five?”
    “She’s pregnant! ”
    “ Baby nobody gains that much weight in two months. Jesus Christ.”
    Sofia flopped against her seat not knowing how to respond to that. “Well she’s pregnant, that’s all I know.”
    “Can you talk her into a doctor visit?”
    Sofia gawked at him. “No! That’s her decision, I’m not interfering, spreading my American doctor need disease on her.”
    “She’s nuts to not go to a doctor, that’s pure voodoo bullshit she’s blabbering about, all that custom this custom that?” He glanced from the road to her repeatedly. “Only, here in America, we call it neglect of a child’s well-being. We call it preventive medicine, we call it technology, the twenty-first century. We also call it my brother’s son or daughter if she is pregnant for him and that means she needs to consider what he’d want.”
    “Well, I’m sure she will when Seth is home.”
    “Ahhh, that’s right, ” Daniel said, like problem solved. “I’ll talk him into insisting she go to a doctor.”
    “How do you plan to do that?”
    “Easy, just list one of the hundred ways she could lose that baby from not seeking medical attention.”
    “Really?”
    “Of course! There’s a dozen issues they can prevent, fix, stop, or alter if caught early enough. She’s insane and irresponsible to not go to a fucking doctor. And baby, I swear if she treats Sarah like a dog in front of me one more time, I’m going to call her out on it. So you better warn her.”
    “Me! Daniel don’t put me in the middle of that.”
    “Fine, I’ll talk to her, you’re