within the next few hours.”
I gripped the phone tighter, thinking of Hazel and Wren waiting at home with a neighbor, thinking of the baby whose only crime, in Grady and Pauline’s eyes, might already be the wrong chromosome.
“Please,” I whispered. “Just save the baby. Whatever happens to me.”
“We’re going to do everything we can for both of you,” Dr. Osei said firmly. “But right now, I also need you to let us help you. That starts with getting your husband and his mother out of any decision-making role in your care today.”
PART 3
Detective Corinne Vasquez arrived within the hour, along with a hospital social worker named Theo Manning, both of them listening to the recorded evidence with the same growing, focused alarm Renata had shown earlier.
“This is one of the most thoroughly documented domestic abuse
