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CHAPTER 4 — The Girl Who Was Never Supposed to Speak

On screen, Richard sat in a private restaurant booth across from Judge Bennett.

Richard smiled and slid an envelope across the table.

The judge said:

“Your wife won’t leave that courtroom with anything. I’ll make sure of it.”

Emily covered her mouth.

The man trusted to deliver justice had been selling it.

Suddenly, headlights swept across the lake house windows.

A black SUV rolled slowly up the gravel driveway.

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Olivia woke up and whispered:

“They found us.”

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