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Nothing obvious.

But something pulled her from sleep.

She sat up slowly, her heart already beginning to race.

“Daniel,” she whispered.

He stirred beside her. “What is it?”

“Do you hear that?”

He listened.

Silence.

“I don’t hear anything,” he said.

Amira swallowed. “Exactly.”

That’s what was wrong.

The baby should have been crying.

Or moving.

Or making some kind of sound.

But there was nothing.

She got out of bed.