Seeking Reasons
I pushed harder, my emotions barely contained. “We searched everywhere. Why didn’t you say anything?” My voice cracked with desperation, raw and unsteady. Kelsey’s eyes flickered with regret. “Because I believed him,” she confessed, her voice trembling under the weight of her decision. Her words hit me like a tidal wave, an overwhelming surge of betrayal, anger, and sorrow. How could she have chosen his lies over the truth—over my boys?

Seeking Reasons
A Desperate Demand
I rose to my feet, fists clenched at my sides, struggling to hold back the frustration surging within me. “Tell me where they went,” I demanded, my voice sharp and urgent, reverberating through the cold, sterile room. Each passing second stretched endlessly, a torturous reminder of precious time slipping away—time I couldn’t afford to lose in the search for my children. Kelsey’s gaze locked with mine, her eyes a tempest of unspoken emotion on the verge of breaking free. She held the answer I so desperately needed, a fragile lifeline dangling just out of reach. I steadied myself, bracing for the weight of her next words.

A Desperate Demand