My Newborn Went Silent Whenever My Husband Took Him—Then the Baby Monitor Revealed What His Mother Had Been Hiding

So I put the cracked phone beside the blue diaper bag.

The crack ran from one corner of the screen toward the middle, and the phone sometimes opened an app by itself when I pressed the case.

I had stopped trusting it for anything important.

That night, I kept it within reach.

The baby shifted against my shoulder.

I looked at the phone.

Then I looked toward the kitchen.

I did not ask Daniel about the mark.