I picked it up.
Something immediately seemed wrong.
The tablets inside didn’t look like the ones I remembered seeing at the pharmacy.
They were uneven.
Too soft.
Almost like candy.
Victor reached for my wrist.
“Jenna. Don’t.”
I looked more closely.
They weren’t what he had been prescribed.
My stomach tightened.
“Mom knew about this?”
Victor looked away.
That was answer enough.
I reached for my phone.
No signal.
I tried the landline.
Nothing.
Then I noticed the router had been unplugged.
Victor’s phone was on the counter, but the SIM card had been removed.
His walker wasn’t nearby either.
I eventually found it near the basement stairs.
At that point, I stopped telling myself there had simply been some misunderstanding.
