Jacob
They kept Bri in the hospital until midday the next day, and then Jacob was allowed to take her home. Home. It felt so empty now. Home, where he had planned on painting the nursery. Home, where he imagined playing with a brown-haired, brown-eyed toddler on the rug in front of the TV. Now, the word felt so empty. What was home without hope?
As soon as they got back, he laid with Bri in bed. The girl wouldn’t stop crying. Though, he couldn’t say he blamed her. They laid downstairs in her bed, knowing full well what was waiting upstairs. He would have to do laundry and mop before he let her back up there. The blood would be too stark a reminder of what they lost.
When he was sure she was asleep and wouldn’t wake up for a while, he got up and dressed for a meeting with the
