Chapter 162

The email came at 10:17 a.m.

Subject line: *Quick Check-In.*

Those three words had a way of tightening her chest.

Daniel forwarded it with a simple message:

*Did you see this?*

She had.

And she’d already read it twice.

The older one’s teacher wanted to schedule a meeting. Nothing urgent. Nothing alarming. Just a “conversation about classroom participation and peer dynamics.”

Which could mean anything.

Or everything.

Daniel called during his break.

“It’s ...