one else was there.
I remembered trying to move.
Trying to scream.
Trying to tell them I was still inside.
“I heard them,” I said. “Not everything. Not every day. But enough.”
Vanessa stared at the table.
I looked at the judge, not at her.
“I heard my sister say the hospital needed to stop giving my military team updates. I heard my mother say she didn’t continue reading …