I froze halfway out of the bedroom.
Three weeks after giving birth, I was exhausted almost all the time, but those four words woke me faster than the baby ever could.
My mother-in-law was downstairs.
I hadn’t let her in, and I hadn’t even known she was coming over.
Then I remembered the emergency key Caleb and I had given her after the baby was born.
A few minutes earlier, I’d been asleep beside my daughter.
Getting her down that afternoon had taken forever.
The second she finally closed her eyes, I lay beside her and passed out too.
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