Sage sniffled again, wiping under her nose with the sleeve of her sweatshirt. “It doesn’t bother you either, then?” A thousand answers crowded the back of my mouth, and I wrenched them down, choosing these words with more care than I’d ever managed in my entire life. “I want your mom to be happy,” I said. “I’ll always want that for her, and having the two of you in my life is more important than anything else.”
