Chapter 13 - DANIEL’S TEXTSA warrant for Daniel’s phone produced messages with Evelyn.
Three weeks before my fall:
EVELYN:
She looks exhausted.
DANIEL:
She’s pregnant.
EVELYN:
She refuses to rest.
DANIEL:
Don’t start.
Then:
EVELYN:
A few drops in tea and she finally sleeps.
DANIEL:
What drops?
EVELYN:
Natural calming drops.
DANIEL:
Don’t give her anything weird.
EVELYN:
I raised you.
He did not respond.
Four days later:
DANIEL:
Did you give Claire that stuff again? She slept through dinner.
EVELYN:
She needed it.
DANIEL:
Mom.
EVELYN:
Stop being dramatic.
I read the messages three times.
“Natural calming drops.”
Daniel knew she was dosing me with something.
Maybe not prescription medication.
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But he knew.
He never told me.
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Chapter 14 - THE FIRST TIME I HAD FELT WRONGTen days before the fall, I fell asleep at my desk at three in the afternoon.
Chapter 15 - DANIEL ADMITS WHAT HE KNEWI met Daniel in my attorney’s office.
Chapter 16 - OLIVIA WAS NOT THE PLANI wanted Olivia to be part of everything.
Chapter 17 - THE BEDROOM AUDIOThe bedroom security feed preserved more than the fifteen seconds I watched.
Chapter 18 - WHY EVELYN WANTED ME ASLEEPThe answer was humiliatingly ordinary.
Chapter 19 - THE CENTRAL TRUTHEvelyn did not push me down the stairs.
