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“Your brothers and sisters?”

“After I’d left for school, he’d kept the other kids home They found Hailey in the bathroom…it looked like she’d tried to lock herself in there Daniel was on the floor in his room Justin was next to him Amanda was still in her crib”

Ethan let out a ood there that I ignored the reflexive need to check his hands and just held onto him “Your mom?” he asked

“She was the one who found us The others had been gone a while…long before he even ca on after having lost so much blood I was in the hospital for three months Physical therapy helped with the paralysis I went to live with ed me”

Ethan pulled back from me and wiped at his face He wiped atI hadn’t felt any tears, but then again, I was so nu anymore

“What about your mom?”

I shook my head “When she refused to accept that randmother sued for custody of me”

Ethan shook his head in disbelief “She didn’t believe you?”

“No Even after I woke up from the coma and told her what had happened, she insisted I was confused That it was a stranger who’d done it”

“What happened to your father?”

“He was arrested, but they couldn’t hold hi until I woke up and told them who’d attacked me When I did, he took off My mother helped him escape”

“But they caught hiht?”

I shook my head “He’s still out there somewhere”