If anything happens to me, go straight to Harlan. And then his line went silent, and the silence was the loudest thing I had ever heard.

Chapter 15 — Thirty-Six Hours

The silence lasted thirty-six hours, and each of those hours was a year long.

I couldn’t sleep.

I couldn’t eat.

I sat beside my phone and stared at the dark screen and bargained with a God I wasn’t sure I believed in for a single sign that my child was still breathing.