Courtney walked in smiling, but froze solid the instant she heard the words.

Just as Jared opened his mouth to demand an explanation, my phone buzzed with an anonymous message.

It held a photograph of my mother and a chilling sentence: If you want to know why they took your son, find the old house in Portland before they burn it down.

That was when I realized my lost baby might not be the only secret they’d buried.

Chapter 3: The Truth Revealed

I didn’t sign anything else that day, and I didn’t scream, either.

I let Jared, Courtney, the doctors, and the nurses read my silence as weakness, because I needed them to trust me long enough for me to get out of that hospital alive.