A three AM phone call about a locked room changed everything

we are going to leave it in the kitchen drawer for now.”

“Dad said you would say that,” Mia said, her voice small and direct. “He said you do not want us to have nice things.”

“I want you to have things that belong to you, not things that watch you,” I said.

Neither of them answered. Mia pulled her sleeves further over her hands until continue reading …