A Safe Child Makes Noise
Sondra’s finger swung toward me, her face twisted.
“You did this.
You took my child.”
I looked at her without blinking.
“Mira called me because Rhys wouldn’t wake up.”
“He wasn’t dying!” she shrieked — and then went white, because she had said it in a hallway full of officers, in a room that recorded, a second too late to take it back.