My heart pounded as I pulled Eli into my lap. “Tell me everything, baby,” I whispered. He took a shaky breath. “When Daddy took me for juice, I forgot my rabbit. I ran back alone. A nurse was in your room with the baby, and she put a pink bracelet on her wrist, then took it off and put on a different one.” My blood went cold.

“Eli, are you sure?” He nodded hard. “Her birthmark was gone, Mommy. The baby I loved had a star behind her left ear. This one does not.” I carried him down the hall and switched on the nursery lamp. I lifted the sleeping baby’s tiny ear and looked behind it. Smooth, pale skin. Nothing. My husband appeared in the doorway, and I could not speak.