My 12-Year-Old Daughter Cut Off Her Hair for a Girl with Cancer – Then the Principal Called and Said, ‘You Need to Come Now and See What Happened with Your Own Eyes’

My hand slipped. The bowl struck the sink and cracked.

“Is Letty okay?”

“She’s safe,” he said quickly. Too quickly. “But six men came in together asking for her by name. My secretary thought we needed security.”

Three months before that, another controlled male voice had told me my husband, Jonathan, was dead.

“Who are they?”

“They said Jonathan’s old plant. Letty heard his name and refused to leave the office. Piper, she’s safe, but everyone’s emotional. You need to come now.”

Then the call ended.

I stood frozen, looking at my phone as the water kept running. Letty’s backpack was gone. Jonathan was gone.