“It will be okay, the swelling just needs to
come down, we don’t need a nurse for that.”
He was about to argue.
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Then Lily’s lips turned blue.
She threw up.
“It’s a bad reaction! She needs help!”
My father–in–law panicked.
He pushed past me and ran out of the room.
“Mommy… I feel bad. I want water…”
Lily looked pale and frail.
She was still my daughter.
I couldn’t let her suffer.
I turned to get her some water.
When I turned back, Lily was gone.
Her vomit was all that was left on the bed.
And my phone, playing cartoons.
My father–in–law rushed in with a nurse.
“Where’s Lily? The nurse needs to see her!”
My heart sank.
“Didn’t you see her leave?”
He looked confused.
“I just came from the front desk with the
nurse. No one went by.”
The front desk faced both elevators.
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If anyone had left, they would have seen.
But my father–in–law and the nurse had seen
no one get on or off the elevators.
We searched the room.
We searched the hallways.
Nothing.
We checked the fire escape.
Still nothing.
Six–year–old Lily had vanished.
My mother–in–law rushed back with soup.
She burst into tears.
I tried to stay calm.
If I didn’t find Lily, she would end up just like
last time.
I called the police.
The police checked the hospital’s security
cameras.
Nothing suspicious.
I begged them to check the cameras outside.
Still nothing.
At dawn, the police told us to be patient and
left.
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My in–laws and I went home, numb.
My mother–in–law called Mark, crying.
She told him Lily was gone.
Mark flew back that afternoon.
He heard that I was the last person with Lily.
He wanted to kill me.
“You said you’d have her kidnapped! You evil
woman!”
“Where is she?!”
He grabbed a vase and smashed it over my
face.
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Pain exploded.
The shards of the vase cut my face.
The police told him to calm down.
My father–in–law tried to defend me.
“I was with Jennifer all night! We only left for
a minute! I was right by the elevators! It
couldn’t have been her!”
“Then how did she disappear?! What the hell
happened?!”
Mark glared at me, his eyes full of hate.
Before I could say anything, the police got a
call.
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They’d found Lily!
Just like last time, she was on a deserted
road outside town.
She was lying in a broken–down van, covered
in blood.
She was whimpering.
She kept spitting up blood.
Her legs were twisted and broken.
Her tongue was cut out.
Mark scooped her up, sobbing.
Lily saw me.
L
She trembled.
She wrote something on the ground in blood.
“Mommy did it. She wants to kill me.”
I couldn’t breathe.
“Lily, why would you lie like this?”
Lily stared at me, terrified.
She grabbed my arm.
She started hitting her head against the
ground, begging for forgiveness.
She went limp.
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She passed out.
Mark tried to attack me, but the police
stopped him.
Then I noticed something in my hand.
A bloody piece of paper.
Lily had given it to me.
In shaky letters, written in blood, were two
words: “The phone.”
My heart leaped into my throat.
I grabbed my phone.
When I saw the photos, I was stunned.
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The truth had been right in front of me the
whole time!
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“Let me go! I’m going to tear that evil witch
apart!”
Mark was seeing red.
He was struggling like a maniac.
“The law will handle this fairly. What you’re
doing is assault!”
The cops cuffed him.
I was placed under arrest too.
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“Ms. Johnson, given the victim’s accusations,
we need you to come down to the station for
questioning.”
I nodded.
I was relieved.
Things were different this time!
