The police knocked just as my son stood holding the twins his father abandoned—but what he said next changed everything and left them speechless

his face.

“Someone should be.”

That sentence lingered heavily between us.

Eventually I sat beside him.

The babies slept in our arms.

For a while, neither of us spoke.

Then Josh finally asked the question we’d both been avoiding.

“What happens now?”

I stared ahead blankly.

“I honestly don’t know.”

“They can’t go into foster care.”

I rubbed my tired eyes.

“Josh…”

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