Hearing my name being spoken, my heart felt as if it were suddenly clenched hard by an invisible hand.
“As long as she’s sent to the hospital—dead or alive—declare brain death immediately and transplant her kidney to Evangeline. Donate the rest of her organs. Even her body is to be donated for medical anatomy!”
Deathly silence filled the living room.
“It was because I heard those words that they wanted to kill me to silence me. When pushing me down the stairs didn’t work, they pinned the charge of intentional murder entirely on Aria.”
Juliette shouted out the truth from three years ago in one breath. When she finished, she was clearly drained of strength—her chest heaved violently, her breathing so rapid she could barely catch it, her face flushed deep red.
I stood there, my limbs icy
