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

He had thought it through very carefully indeed.

Chapter 11 — The Note on the Fridge

I drove to our house while Jonah stayed safe with Marjorie.

I needed to see it.

The inside was spotless.

That was the first thing that turned my stomach — not mess, but its opposite, a house wiped down and tidied like a crime scene, like a man arranging the story he’d tell later.

On the refrigerator, held by a magnet, was a note in Declan’s handwriting.