My parents stole my passport and framed me at the airport—but one customs officer recognized who I really was and exposed everything

treatment?” she asked.

I dipped the mop into bleach water and kept moving.

She believed silence meant surrender.

Sometimes silence means the fuse has already been lit.

**PART 4**

By Friday afternoon, the entire house was shaking under the weight of its own lies.

Harper found my packed suitcases hidden beneath a canvas tarp in my closet. I heard her shriek continue reading …