“Officer Vance stood on the porch with her while I waited in the driveway with Benji.”

“Why are you pushing this so hard?” Clay asked, breathing heavily into the phone.

“If CPS gets into this, they could take him away from both of us.”

“CPS is already in it,” I said.

“The doctor filed the paperwork twenty minutes ago.”

“You should’ve waited till I got home,” Clay said.

“We could have dealt with this inside the family.”

“He was freezing cold, Clay.”