When Love Dies, Truth Emerges

ing above my own corpse in a cheap apartment. It was Christm

stopped thinking I was just sleeping. He called hi

What? Why are you calling me? Where's your mother?" He laughed harshly when Leo said I wou

his mistress Sarah's whispers, twisted his words into an accusation about

ved could wake me. He braved the freezing city, walking for hours to his father's m

defended me, calling her a "monster," she shoved him, causing him to hit his head and bleed. T

eel guilty. When Leo stammered, "The pen... the one you use to wake Mommy up," Ethan was conf

to a snowdrift. "You will not get up until you tell me where the phone is and apologize for your lies." The feather pen, Leo' s only hope, was