The third had a name written across it.
For whoever finds this.
Harris opened it.
His face changed.
“What?”
His partner stepped closer.
Harris handed him the letter.
The first paragraph explained that the mother had been afraid of someone.
Not a stranger.
The twins’ father.
She claimed he had threatened to take the children if she ever left him.
Then came the sentence that made both officers stop.
He doesn’t know the twins survived.
Harris looked up.
“What does that mean?”
His partner pointed to another document.
A temporary birth registration.
Only one father was listed.
Then Harris found a photograph.
The mother was standing beside a man neither officer recognized.
In her arms was a newborn baby.
But there was something strange about the photograph.
A hospital bracelet was visible around the baby’s wrist.
The name printed on it wasn’t the mother’s surname.
It belonged to someone else.
