She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

because my parents had switched carriers later and old billing archives had been retained longer than anyone expected.

At 8:12 p.m. the night Chloe left the kids with me, she’d called my parents’ house for eleven minutes.

At 8:26 p.m., she’d called again for four.

She dropped the kids at my apartment at 8:43.

My father had known.

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