Even if it was worse than anything I had allowed myself to believe.

PART 6 — WHAT MARLENE KNEW

The first statements didn’t agree.

Daniel said I’d become upset and taken the baby from him unnecessarily.

He claimed he was trying to settle our son.

Marlene initially described me as hysterical.

She said I’d fallen and that Daniel had been trying to protect the baby.

When Detective Alvarez told me, I stared at her.

“I didn’t fall.”

Alvarez checked her notes.