My Husband Came Home to an Empty Nursery

speak after that.

Pam told me later she could hear him breathing. Fast. Like he had run up stairs.

“Where is she?”

“You don’t get to ask me that.”

“Pam.”

“No. You don’t get to use my name like we’re relatives.”

He said he would call the police. He said I had taken his son. He said a lot of words that sounded official because Derek liked official words. Custody.continue reading …