The Erased Son

y was fo

, held at the Vance famil

avid, kept handing

ou' re a father now.

who had married his daughter, Chloe. I knew he resented me. His father, the patriarch Ar

ld have. The world blurre

. The sun was streaming through th

was a b

g against my ribs. I checke

mother-in-law, Maria, were in the kit

I demanded. "W

a confused,

lking about? Our daughte

e poison in my mouth. "We have

Ethan? We' ve always had a d

ose men, Ethan? Disappointed you didn' t get a boy? T

me. All three of them.

they followed close behind. The baby

, my voice shaking. "On his s

ling as I tried to turn the baby over.

was immediate

breathing became a ragged, horrif

raw, piercing so

u killed her! You mur

he media painted me as a monster, a misogynist who

in-law, was told I was unstable,

s testimony, the media frenzy,

dict wa

ead through my body. My last thought was one of utter

jolted

couch in the master bedroom of the Vance estate. T

the cold, the confusion-it

happeni