Brayden
“Jana, I can’t understand what you’re saying.” I lift her onto my desk while I sit down in my leather chair.
“Mommy,” Jana sobs.
“Mommy, what?”
“Jana?” Xavier urges when our little girl fails to answer.
Jana is sobbing so much that her eyes are swollen, and sobs wrack her little body.
I sigh while wiping the tears from her face with my thumbs. “Baby girl, calm down.” It takes Xavier and me an age to get Jana to calm down enough to answer us.
“Why does everybody hurt my mommy?”
I narrow my eyes. “What are you talking about, Jana?”
“Kylie,” Jana swallows back the saliva about to fall from her mouth. “She was mean to Mommy.”
“Mean how?” Jana looks at Xavier while wiping her eyes. “Tell us what happened, princess.”
“Mommy and me were playing in my playground. Kylie came and
