He sat there holding the only drawing left of her.
Then the woman in red walked toward him and said the words that destroyed him:
“Your baby was locked inside. He couldn’t breathe.”
For a second, he didn’t understand.
Then the truth hit him.
The child he had been searching for…
the child he should have protected…
had suffered because of what he allowed to happen.
His hands started shaking.
“Oh God… what have I done?”
That was the moment guilt finally caught up to him.