Three Days Before the Casket Was Delivered, My Son Asked Me to Sign a Document
My right palm was raw where the brass key had rested, and I couldn’t stop rubbing it.
“The first blood panel came back,” Paul said.
He tapped his pen twice on the board.
“Chloe has a heavy amount of a pediatric sedative nobody prescribed her.
A dose no child her size should ever get.”
“Does that clear my name?” I asked.
“It turns this into a criminal case,” he said.
“The officer upstairs is writing it up right now.