“I let him in because of the child. I couldn’t leave him out there, stuck with a father who had no idea how to parent.
But it didn’t last long.”
“A week later, I woke up, and Caleb was gone.” Her voice dropped to almost nothing. “The child was still sleeping in the other room.”
I stared at her.
She nodded once.
“I waited for him to come back. I called. I filed a report, but I never heard from him again.”
She told me the rest in fragments.
She’d worked two jobs to take care of Caleb’s son, but it wasn’t enough.
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