After my stepfather injured my twin sister and me, he brought us to the hospital. My mother calmly told the doctor, “They just fell down the stairs.” My stepfather smiled, thinking he had won. But as the nurse checked my vitals, I slipped a handwritten note into her pocket, and…

past three months is currently in the possession of the police.”

The blood instantly drained from his face, leaving him a ghastly, ashen grey. The confident posture collapsed.

Eleanor, standing just behind him, stumbled backward as if physically struck. “You… you recorded us?”

Chloe, fighting through the haze of painkillers, forced herself into a sitting continue reading …