My 7-year-old came back from her moms place with marks, Her stepdad called it toughening up, My ex said I was being too soft, She forgot Im a police officer, In my work, we call it something else, Evidence
The first light of Sunday crept through the blinds as Officer Michael Miller poured his coffee, his mind already running through the day. He was forty-two, salt-and-pepper hair, a face marked by years of seeing too much and saying too little. Sundays were his one break from the job — the day his seven-year-old daughter,…