Then David stepped between them.
“You’re done.”
Moments later, officers came through the front door.
Steven immediately raised his hands.
“I didn’t do anything.”
One officer looked at me.
“Are the girls safe?”
I looked at Kayla and Reese.
“No,” I said softly. “But they will be.”
The officers separated everyone.
Kayla and Reese sat together in the living room.
Steven was questioned in the kitchen.
Then I turned toward David.
“You knew.”
He closed his eyes.
“I suspected.”
“You knew enough to confront him.”
“I didn’t know all of it.”
“You knew he was hurting her.”
He didn’t answer.
That silence was enough.
“How long?”
“Since Tuesday.”
I stared at him.
He explained that he had seen Steven grab Kayla outside.
He confronted him.
Then asked Kayla whether she wanted him to tell me.
