I Buckled My Three-Day-Old Baby Into Her Car Seat and Drove Home Thinking the Hospital Had Been the Hardest Part….

I shook my head immediately. “That’s impossible. My husband works in consulting. We just had a baby.”

“We recovered a significant quantity of illegal substances from your basement,” she continued. “Along with packaging materials and digital scales.”

My chest felt hollow. “The basement is storage,” I said. “Boxes. Old furniture.”

“There was also another individual found in the basement,” she added.

I froze. “Another individual?”