Chapter 5 — The Missing Marks

The next morning, Hannah found the first sign that danger had already entered the nursery. She opened the cabinet with the emergency formula and stared at the cans.

Three days earlier, she had marked every lid with a small blue dot and arranged the containers by expiration date. Two cans had no dots. She checked them twice.

The seals looked intact and the labels were identical, but they were not the cans she’d placed there.

Hannah said nothing. She replaced the emergency supply with newly purchased formula and carried the suspicious cans to Dr. Bennett’s medical office. The pediatrician listened carefully.

“It may be a supply mistake,” he said.

“Then why would someone remove my marks?”