I stopped and looked at him, and I heard my own voice come out shaking, though not with fear.

“I am not trying to start anything, Richard.

I am trying to find out what the two of you did to my daughter.”

Chapter 4 — Is Dad Here

In the emergency room, after a while, Maya woke — pale, and disoriented, and frightened.

And the first thing she did, before she was even fully conscious, was look wildly around the room.