My daughter vanished after a fishing trip with her father—one year later, what I discovered inside his tackle box made me go completely still.

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“Hi, bug,” he whispered.

Sophie didn’t smile.

Mark sat across from us. “I’m sorry.”

“I thought I was protecting you,” he said.

Sophie held my hand tighter. “You made Mom disappear too.”

I looked at Mark. “You took a year from us. Now you don’t get to take her forgiveness, her healing, or her voice. We’re going to court.”

“You made Mom disappear too.”

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