I Hired A Cleaner While My Family Was Away

is seven.”

His face changed.

Then I heard it too.

Small. Muffled.

A baby crying from somewhere above us.

My knees almost gave out.

The officers went in first. I stood in my own entryway feeling like a stranger, listening to their boots hit the stairs.

Then came a scrape.

Wood dragging against wood.

Someone shouted, “There’s a door back here.”

I ran before anyone continue reading …