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Christening
Claire Kent
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons,
living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Claire Kent. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or
transmit in any form or by any means.
The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks
referenced in this work of fiction: Jell-O and UNO.
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Erin waited five minutes longer than she should have, hoping the phone might still ring.
It didn’t. As the minutes passed, the weight in her gut that had been there all day—that had been
there for weeks, although she’d tried to ignore it—got tighter until it actually hurt.
Finally, when she heard Mackenzie’s loud request for “Mommy!” echo through the apartment,
Erin stopped staring at the phone and got up to kiss her daughters goodnight.
She glanced into Anna’s room first, but saw that it was empty, with the violet color-scheme,
delicate white furniture, and large collection of stuffed puppies (lined up lovingly by order of size)
remaining in semi-neat quiet. Having expected Anna’s absence, Erin simply moved on to the next
bedroom.
There were twin beds in Mackenzie’s room. Mackenzie was in one, and Anna in the other.
“Are you going to sleep in here again tonight?” Erin asked as she entered the room and moved
toward her younger daughter, who was curled up under the gold and green coverlet.
Anna nodded and stared up at Erin with the wide eyes. Anna was blond, like Erin, and she’d
recently had her fourth birthday. “Yes. I wanna sleep with Mac.”
She spoke pretty well most of the time, but when she was tired she would often swallow over
her words.
Erin sank down to the edge of the twin bed. “Did Mackenzie say it was all right?” She glanced
over at her other daughter, whose delicate features looked rather grumpy.
At her mother’s questioning look, however, Mackenzie nodded in a silent affirmation.
“Yes. I asked her like you told me.” Anna snuggled under the covers of the small bed. “I sleep
with Mac tonight.”
“Okay.” She stroked Anna’s messy shoulder-length hair back from her rosy face. “As long as
Mackenzie doesn’t mind, then you can sleep in here with her. But it’s her bedroom, so you have to
sleep in your room if she wants to be alone.”
Anna nodded solemnly, her eyes wider than ever. Then she raised her arms up toward Erin,
requesting her goodnight kiss.
Erin smiled at her, secretly pleased that one of their daughters looked like her. Mackenzie, of
course, was exactly like Seth in almost every way, but Anna was more like Erin, particularly when
she smiled.
Giving Anna a hug and a kiss on the cheek, Erin murmured, “Mommy and Daddy love you,
sweetie. Lots and lots.”
Anna giggled happily and hugged Erin in return, but her mouth turned down into a frown as she
pulled away.
“What is it?” Erin asked.
The girl’s forehead wrinkled in deep thought. “I can’t remember what Daddy looks like.”
The weight in Erin’s gut clenched sickeningly, but she managed to smile and shake her head.

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