He Told Three Different Lies So No One Would Check on My Son. Then His Own Children Found the Note on the Fridge

“Six days ago.”

For a moment I could not make my mouth work at all.

“And who’s been staying with you?”

“Nobody,” my son said.

“I’m by myself.”

And then he added the thing that I will hear for the rest of my life.

“Declan said I shouldn’t call you.

He said my stuff wasn’t important, and you already had enough problems.”