No water.
No bathroom.
No light.
All because of a toy.
I drove directly to the emergency room.
The nurses rushed us in immediately.
Dehydration.
Exhaustion.
Heat exposure.
Doctors asked question after question.
“How long was she locked inside?”
“Did anyone check on her?”
“Has something like this happened before?”
That last question hit me the hardest.
Because if I was honest… the warning signs had been there for years.
The Truth I Could No Longer Ignore
My mother had always favored Ethan.
Everyone knew it.
