"The more the merrier?" Marcus offered, his voice pitching up into a question.
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The room was very quiet. Claire remembered the first year: Mark looking away whenever Leo mentioned his mother’s house. Leo refusing to say where he’d be on weekends. Claire herself, trying so hard to be warm that she accidentally erased the cold spaces Leo needed to grieve. "The more the merrier