The Night I Thought We’d Lost Everything
One evening, I came home late.
The house felt wrong the second I opened the door.
Keane was pacing.
Mango was scratching at Owen’s bedroom door.
And Owen was crying — not screaming, but crying in that tired, relentless way that breaks your nerves.
Keane looked at me with pure terror.
Then he said four words I will never forget:
“I dropped him.”
My heart stopped.
“What?”
