If Emily ever discovers the truth, please don’t make her pay for our mistakes.
Sarah.
Emily sat on the floor, unable to move.
Her mother had apparently had another daughter.
But what had happened to Anna?
She took out her phone and searched the name alongside the hospital’s name printed on the bracelet.
After several minutes, she found an old local newspaper archive.
A headline appeared on the screen:
LOCAL FAMILY SEARCHES FOR MISSING TEENAGER
The article was dated twenty-seven years earlier.
The missing girl’s name was Anna Carter.
She had disappeared at the age of sixteen.
According to the article, her family had refused to discuss the circumstances.
Emily’s hands began to shake.
If Anna had disappeared before Emily was born, why had her parents hidden her existence?
And why had her mother written that she couldn’t protect Emily from her father?
She called her father.
He answered immediately.
“Where are you?” he demanded.
“At the old house.”
