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She’d sworn, no gun play ever. She made the promise the minute the technician deciphered the ultrasound image. Betts knew she had zero jurisdiction in the playground or the neighbors’ backyard but she had absolute powers at 52 Meadowbrook. It was a dictatorship- no guns, toys or otherwise. She reminded Liam every day how things could be, so one should be thankful for how they are. She hoped that the power of suggestion and a fertile imagination would continue to be the perfect recipe to circumvent corporal punishment. No matter, Patrick would be out in three years and she would be free, her maternal contract ended with lucky thirteen.