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She had lied. Framed Lily. Ordered Randy to sell her to traffickers. Stabbed Sharon and Jenn in the back when they offered kindness. Even after being rescued herself, she had ripped away other girls’ only shelter. The day she fell down those stairs-was the broken security camera really just a coincidence? Could anything she said…

Staring at their gravestone, Lily’s chest tightened with grief. Charles and Sharon were kind, radiant people. They loved life and fought for hope. They didn’t deserve to go out like this. As she and James left the cemetery, two butterflies drifted toward them. One, pale pink and white, landed gently on Jenn’s shoulder and stayed…

Hearing Mergan call her cruel broke something in her. It felt like the world tilted under her feet-she stumbled and collapsed to the floor in a heap. She turned to Randy, her last lifeline, hoping-praying-he’d protect her. That he’d take the fall like he always had. No one wanted to go to prison. Randy didn’t…

Yes, Randy had taken the blame. Yes, Mathilda still claimed she’d been forced into betrayal five years ago. But they couldn’t shake the feeling that this time-this horror-couldn’t have happened without Mathilda. And even if she weren’t directly responsible, the fact that she betrayed Sharon and Jenn years ago and then refused to help them…

Her body hurt. But what hurt more… was her heart. Because all this pain and all these injuries-were gifts from her own daughter. “Mom, things were so dangerous last night. Why would you go back just to grab those cat-shaped hairpins you gave Lily?” Bodger furrowed his brow, looking at his mother with a mix…

Even if they couldn’t believe she was truly innocent, they tried to comfort her. “It’s all in the past now. We won’t bring it up again.” “Mathilda, you’ll always be my dearest sister,” Bodger said. “I’ll always be good to you.” “I’ll protect you forever,” Taylor added. “I swear I won’t let anyone treat our…

And he didn’t believe, for a second, that they could live under the same roof for years and know nothing. On the screen, the Luke family bodyguards’ punches landed harder and faster. As their precious sons. screamed in agony, Dave and the others completely broke. The two women burst into messy sobs, their faces soaked…

Then she lied to the Ginger brothers, claiming Lily had flaunted them at her, saying, “Mom only loves me. Why else would she give me something so expensive for my birthday?” She said Lily had thrown the clips at her feet like some kind of charity. She claimed she was worried Lily might want them…

Mergan’s eyes were dark as night, his voice chilling. “Lily, you and that bastard in your belly-are you trying to die? Stop right now!” “Who the hell are you calling a bastard?” James’s punch came fast and brutal, knocking Mergan’s jaw sideways. “You think you can insult my child?” “James, you’re out of your goddamn…

Through tears, she’d claimed she had no idea why Jenn would smear her like that. Said she never betrayed anyone. They’d asked her, too-if she and Jenn and Sharon had all ended up in the same village, why hadn’t she told the police, when they came to rescue her over four years ago, that there…