"All right,! ;" Daniel left before completing his statement because he received a call. When I was able to breathe at last, what was I thinking?Was what Drake said accurate, perhaps?.. After a few hours, when the kids had returned from school and I had already made lunch and Avila and her sister were seated at the table, I made the decision to call Daniel from his bedroom.

I approached his bedroom door and was on the verge of knocking when I heard him talking. "Do not you dare, I need the drugs right now," Drake screamed into a phone call. He was speaking on the phone with someone else,...