Love, Loss, and Vengeful Hearts

me away from a routine check-up on a golden retr

former mother-in-law. We hadn't spoken

stumbled: "Tomorrow... it' s Ethan' s..

nted to visit the grave of the son he had killed.

t began with a white leather handbag. Mark' s assistant, Chloe, obsessed with her new

than, his voice cold: "You need to be punished. You need

e for a "father-son day." I kissed my boy goodbye, told him t

: "Ma'am, there's been an incident involving you

d David, stood by the operating room, their faces pale. The doctor emerg

Ethan was found locked in a soundproofed server room at Mark' s office, dead from se

hot room and just left him to die? With her? I fumbled fo

, answered: "What?

"Oh." Then Chloe's syrupy voice in the background: "Mark

He hung up. He blocked me. Our son was dead, and he had blo

d to the floor. Th