Rowan Mercer had been halfway through a budget meeting in his Nashville office when his phone lit up with a number he didn’t recognize. For one ordinary second, he almost let it ring out, assuming it was just another vendor trying to reach him before lunch.
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“Micah?” he said. “Why are you calling me from another phone? What happened?”
The boy sniffed hard, trying to hold himself together in the determined, heartbreaking way children do when they’ve already been brave for too long.
“Dad… Elsie won’t wake up right. She keeps sleeping and she feels really hot. Mom isn’t here. We don’t have anything left to eat.”
The room disappeared around Rowan.
