When the officers arrived, they reviewed all the hospital’s security footage but found no suspicious activity.
I pleaded with them to check the several cameras outside the hospital as well, but still, there was nothing.
At dawn, the officers comforted us and told us to wait patiently.
Just like that, they left the hospital.
My in-laws and I had other choice but to return home in a daze.
Priscilla was the one who called Tyson in tears to tell him our daughter was missing.
Tyson flew back that afternoon from Illinois.
Hearing that Niah was last with me before disappearing, he looked like he wanted to kill me on the spot.
“No wonder she told me yesterday that you’d have someone kidnap her! You’re really a monster!” he snapped. And then, he demanded, “Tell me—where did you take my daughter?”
When he couldn't get an answer from me, he grabbed a nearby vase and smashed it hard against my face.
I cried; the pain was sharp and immediate, and glass shards cut into my skin, spilling blood everywhere.
One officer urged him to calm down while Harold spoke up for me.
“I stayed with Sadie and Niah all night—only stepped out for two minutes. Besides, I was right by the elevator. It couldn’t have been her!”
“Then how did my daughter vanish into thin air?! How?!” Tyson shouted helplessly. “What the fuck happened?!”
His eyes were bloodshot with rage, staring at me like he wanted to tear me apart.
Before I could respond, the officers received a call—my baby had been found!
Just like last time, she was discovered on a remote country road outside the city…
Covered in blood, she was lying inside an almost-abandoned van, crying and coughing up blood nonstop!
It was only then that I realized—my baby’s legs had been broken again! God, they were at unnatural angles. And her tongue… They cut my baby’s tongue!
Tyson clutched her in his arms, crying as he carried her out.
When she saw me, Niah trembled. The next second, she dipped a finger into the blood smeared on the floor of the van and shakily wrote something.
[Mommy! She tried to kill me!]
I felt like my eyes were going to split open. “Niah! Why are you lying? Why would you accuse me of something like this?!”
Tears streamed down her face as she clung to me, frantically lowering her head in what looked like an apology over and over again, slamming her forehead into the floor.