in the hallway behind her, covering her mouth with both hands.
That was when I noticed the bruises.
One was on her wrist.
Another was near her collarbone.
For a moment, my mind refused to accept what I was seeing.
Then Lily looked directly at me.
“Daddy,” she whispered, “I wrote it all down so I wouldn’t forget.”
Kate’s expression suddenly changed.
Before I could ask Lily what she meant, Kate rushed toward the hallway closet.
She wasn’t reaching for her purse.
She wasn’t trying to escape through the front door.
She was going after the one thing Lily had managed to keep hidden.
Fourteen months of the truth…
”Don’t you touch that door,” I said. My voice wasn’t loud, but it cut through the hallway with enough steel to freeze Kate mid-stride.
She turned back, her face flushed, fingers twitching near the brass closet knob. “Daniel, please. You don’t
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