The first scream broke more than silence; it split her world in two. By morning, only a baby’s thin wail remained, echoing through rooms that suddenly felt like a crime scene. A missing woman. A child with no answers. A joke turned violent under restaurant lights, a ring sliding onto her finger as an IV beeped nearby—each moment demanding a decision no one had trained her to make. Every “yes,” every “no,” every hand she reached for or let go of dragged her further from the life she recognized, until the woman she’d always claimed to be no longer fit the woman she was becom… Continues…