I Was Lifting Our Heavy Mattress to Search for an Earring I Had Dropped Behind the Bedframe – I Expected to Find Some Dust, but What Was Carefully Taped Beneath His Side of the Mattress Made Me Slowly Sit Down on the Uncovered Floor

and glinting near the baseboard.

And taped to the wood, right on the underside of Ethan’s side of the bed, I saw something else. Something tightly wrapped in dark plastic and layered thickly with duct tape.

My smile faded, and I frowned.

I saw something else.

My shoulder burned from holding the mattress up, and the flashlight beam trembled against the continue reading …