I ran upstairs and found the old VCR.
My hands were shaking as I inserted the tape.
The screen flickered.
Then suddenly…
My mother appeared.
She looked young.
Alive.
Real.
“If you’re watching this,” she said slowly, “then something has gone wrong.”
But she wasn’t talking to me.
She was talking to Linda.
“I lied,” my mother said.
“Adrienne’s father isn’t dead.”
My heart stopped.
“He’s been calling me,” she continued.
“He wants something I have. Something that could expose him.”
She wiped tears from her face.
“I’m meeting him tomorrow. I hope he’ll back down.”
Then she said something that made my blood run cold.
“If I don’t come back… the documents are hidden in the basement.”
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