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I dropped my glass when I saw it.
“Where did you get that?” I asked in shock.
Ava’s fingers were[ trembling.]
“Is Daniel really at work?” she asked.
“Yes.
Why?”
She sank to the floor and burst into tears.
“I’ve wanted to tell you since you adopted me,” she sobbed.
“But I was afraid of your husband.”
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My heart stopped.
“Tell me what?
What do you mean?”
Ava looked me straight in the eye.
I still can’t forget the expression on her face.
“Everything you know about the night Chloe d*ed is a lie,” she whispered.
“You’d better sit down.”
I sat down slowly, my legs no longer steady beneath me.
Ava pressed the jacket against her chest like she was holding something sacred.
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“That night,” she said, “Chloe and I never made it to the movies.”
I stared at her.
