“She told me to fix them. She gave me the pencil.”Then everything clicked.Ms. Emily… was dating my ex-husband. And she recognized Jacob from the moment she saw him.When I confronted her, she cracked. “You can’t just come back and take Mark from me!”She had targeted,
my son to hurt me.The principal acted fast—Emily was fired on the spot. And Jacob? He stayed. Safe, believed, and no longer silent.As we walked out of that school hand-in-hand, I knew: we’d be okay. Because now, I was listening.