It was much harder than she would care to admit to pull herself together when she felt like she was unraveling at the seams. "Ah, this is Magnolia, Maggie," Sage started with, like it explained anything. It was a pretty name. Not something Sage would have chosen. She hadn't chosen. Sage hadn't been dumb enough to do that to herself, name the baby she carried before giving her away. The bump had always just been her little Bean and that had been that.

But she was in fact, a child, a very upset, very confused child. Sage felt the same, if she was going to be honest, but it was hard to really wrap her head around what was happening. "Have you seen Tess?" Surely her sister would know what to do. Tess always knew what to do. Sage had strived not to lean on her sister as much as she had before Maggie came into the world; it had been the first time Sage had handled something almost entirely on her own, hadn't let Tess take the brunt of it or take responsibility.

Now she was going to have to really dig down and take responsibility herself.

Looking helplessly at Declan, she mouthed, she's mine.