Chapter 98. Kiss Your Son Goodbye

RUBY

Now I understand why professionals are discouraged from working on a case they are involved with. You have all these emotions that don't serve you in any way, all they do is get in the way of rational thinking and hinder others from doing their jobs. After my display at the mall, I couldn't help but beat myself up. If I had just stayed calm and involved the authorities immediately then maybe I would have gone home with my baby boy and not empty-handed. All the energy I spent going berserk on Clara or running frantically around the store would have been used to keep myself calm so people could do their jobs and not waste precious time chasing me.

"You should get some sleep," Toby said from the door of Jeremy's nursery where I had laid on the floor. How could he say something like that at a time like this? Did he even care?

"Slow down Ruby," I whispered to myself. I was going from zero to a hundred again so I shut my eyes and c