The Witness with Big Ears: How Love Outran a Closed Case

so hard my knuckles burned. “Where is Leo?”

A pause.

Then, softly, “He’s safe at the moment.”

My heart lurched. “At the moment?”

Ms. Lane exhaled. “He’s in a temporary placement setting. He’s been having… a hard time.”

I closed my eyes.

Of course he had.

A child doesn’t get ripped away and go quietly.

“He asked for you,” she added, and the words fell into continue reading …