Chapter 52 The Reckoning Begins

• Chapter 52 – A Reckoning Begins
• I sat on the edge of the motel bed, gripping my phone so tightly that my knuckles turned white. The eviction, the humiliation, the sheer cruelty of it all—it played in a loop in my mind like a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from.
• Reid was curled up beside me, his tiny arms wrapped around his stuffed bear, his face peaceful despite the turmoil we had just been thrown into. My son, my baby, had been dragged out of the only home he’d ever known. He had looked up at me, his eyes wide with fear, asking if we were in trouble.