While rushing home, I caught my tiny children abandoned in the woods, injured and unrecognizable. I burst into my parents’ house yelling, “What did you do?!” My sister coldly replied, “You lost your rights.” Before I could react, my dad choked me out. Then, my phone rang with a call from the ICU…
Only then did the rigid tension in her arms snap. I pulled Theo’s limp, terrifyingly hot body against my chest. The ambient heat radiating from his skin felt like an open furnace. Stripped of his weight, Maisy collapsed forward, her small frame shuddering against my side.
I cupped her dirt-streaked face, my thumbs tracing her hollow cheekbones.continue reading …
