“Your family just left your daughter’s room.”

Caroline froze.

Her family?
Already here?
And not one of them had called her?

Before she could ask anything else, laughter drifted down the hallway — familiar voices she knew by heart. Her mother, her father, and her sister, Riley, walked toward her as if they’d just finished brunch, not a hospital visit.

A wave of disbelief washed through Caroline. She didn’t say a word. She simply stepped past them and headed straight for her child’s room.

The Room Where Everything Changed