Chapter 70

“At Andre’s house,” Lizzie muttered. “But I don’t need anything. I just…I just want to put all of that stuff behind me.”

“You know, Mom and Dad have been really worried.”

Lizzie took a deep breath. “I know. Emma, you have to believe me, I never meant to hurt them. But Andre…”

As Michelle turned the final corner to their destination, Emma met her sister’s eyes. “Oh, I know all about Andre. But you stayed with him for a month anyway, now didn’t you?”

“Emma, I didn’t stay,” she immediately protested. “He wouldn’t let me leave. You should have heard some of the things he used to say to me.”

“Oh? Like what?”

Lizzie responded without hesitation. “If I left him, he’d find you and kill you. Mom and Dad, too. Everybody I loved. He said he’d hunt you all down one by one. I didn’t have any reason to think he was lying.”

“So you were in his house the entire time?”

“I…I don’t know. It was all so confusing.”