The Envelope That Changed Everything

night, after the doctor told me Leighton and Matteo were stable but still critical, and after Brandon drifted back into a medicated sleep, I drove home in a fog.

I did not go to bed.

I tore through my kitchen like a person searching a crime scene. The chocolates were gone, eaten. But the packaging was not.

I found the gift bag under my sink where I had continue reading …