Chapter 2: The Secret Inside the Rabbit
A woman answered the child protection hotline.
“My niece is five,” I said, struggling to keep my voice steady.
“She has severe br*ises, and she’s terrified of her parents.”
“What is the child’s name?”
“Sophia.”
The woman went silent.
Then I heard rapid typing.
“Sir, a report was already filed about Sophia three months ago.”
My stomach tightened.
“By whom?”
“Her teacher.
But Sophia’s parents removed her from school the next morning.
No one has seen her since.”
Before I could respond, my brother’s name flashed across my phone.
I answered.
“What do you want?”
His voice was strangely calm.
“What did Sophia show you?”
In the background, I heard Sophia crying and her mother demanding that she hand something over.
Then Sophia screamed, “Uncle Michael, he found my rabbit!”
The call suddenly ended.
I remembered how tightly she had clutched that stuffed toy—and the hard object I had felt hidden inside it.
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