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Henry meets his eyes. “The school called me,” he says gently. “Because no one had come to get Isabel and you weren’t answering your phone.”There’s a half-second of earsplitting silence, and then Alex scrambles for his phone, out of Henry’s grip until he finds it on the bed and quickly unlocks it with trembling fingers.— a panic-induced episode causes alex to miss preschool pickup, and he spirals but luckily, his husband and daughter are there to pick up the pieces.