“She fell asleep in the car.

She’s probably just exhausted.”

I placed Harper on the sofa and repeatedly called her name, but she wouldn’t respond.

When I told Spencer that I couldn’t wake her, he glanced at his phone before answering with unsettling indifference.

“Relax, Melanie.

She’ll wake up eventually.

She always does.”

His words disturbed me because he sounded accustomed to seeing Harper unconscious.