The Price of His Indifference

The silence in our house wasn't peaceful.

I was a software engineer, navigating the quiet tension of a marriage that felt increasingly hollow, raising our son Leo while my husband, Ethan, a renowned AI ethicist, became a ghost consumed by his work and his "research partner," Olivia Vance.

Then, the tremors started in Leo's hand, a dizzy spell, a whispered "My head feels fuzzy, Mommy."

Doctors were baffled, shrugging off his rapid neurological decline as "an anomaly."

Meanwhile, Ethan dismissed my terror as overreaction, pointing to Olivia's daughter's mild complaints as proof of normalcy…