What matters is that my son was on the ground, and he would not wake, and the woman who had done it to him was checking her phone.

I bent back over Rhys and kept saying his name, and in the distance, thank God, I heard sirens.

Chapter 5 — The Ambulance

The medics reached us within minutes, and the lead paramedic crouched and asked, fast and level, what Rhys had taken.

Sondra’s story began to move even as she told it.

First it was something harmless and herbal.