VIVIENNE

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"I'm not waking him." My voice was shaking and I let it shake. "He's sick, he's finally asleep, and you are not getting near my son tonight."

"Mrs. Langford." Hale sounded bored. "You can wake him yourself, nice and gentle, or I write down that the mother wouldn't let the child be seen. Think hard about how that reads to a judge in the morning."

"Then write it!" It came out too loud and I didn't care. "Write that I wouldn't let a stranger pull my sick kid out of bed at nine ...