CNU-At my mother’s Sunday dinner, my sister offered to take my five-year-old daugh…

staff do if a child is separated from an adult.”

The room tilted.

“She researched how to abandon my daughter?”

“Yes.”

I looked at Laya’s stuffed animals lined against the pillow. Unicorn. Bear. Mr. Brave. A soft rabbit missing one ear.

Detective Blake continued, “There’s more. We believe she did a practice run with Madison.”

I closed my eyes.

“What does that continue reading …