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Chapter 4 – The Truth About Our Family

Three weeks later, Sophie's stitches were healing.

The scar remained.

So did the nightmares.

During the investigation, detectives uncovered something unexpected.

Preston had staged similar "missing property" incidents before.

At work.

At school.

Even years earlier inside our own parents' home.

Every accusation targeted someone weaker.

Every time our parents protected him.

Former classmates came forward.

Old employees gave statements.

One cousin admitted Preston had once planted jewelry inside her backpack when they were teenagers.

No one believed her then.

Now everyone did.

The prosecutor looked at my parents.

"You didn't create his violence."

"But you rewarded it."

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Those words hit them harder than any prison sentence.

Because they were true.

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