COLE

“What do you mean Arlene and the babies were taken?” I asked for the umpteenth time. The news had come while I was preparing to see the police chief about Lorretta’s case, and I felt rattled enough to take a seat.

My thoughts were in disarray. It seemed like I had been the one to bring her to the hospital from which she had been abducted, and I wondered how long it would take for the news to get out, and how the press would twist it, making the situation even messier.

I turned to the guards who had delivered the news and reached for my phone to return...