“That’s ridiculous,” she whispered.

“Is it?”

Silence.

Then Sophie spoke in a tiny voice behind me.

“Mom said if doctors asked questions, I should say I fell.”

Rebecca snapped toward her violently.

“SOPHIE.”

My daughter flinched so hard she nearly fell backward.

That did it.

Completely.

Every instinct inside me roared awake at once.

I picked up my daughter immediately.

part2