Semua Bab Did I Steal My Fiancé’s Ex Identity: Bab 171 - Bab 173

Riley's POV The room was very quiet.I looked at Lisa. Her face was pale. “Did you know about that?” I asked softly.She shook her head. Her mouth was open in shock. “No. Never. I… I never listened to this one. I was too upset after that session. I just forgot about it.”I placed the recorder on the bed between us. My mind was racing. “Riley, what does that mean?” Lisa whispered. Her voice was shaky. “She said ‘we’. ‘We can’t have her remembering.’ Who is ‘we’?” Lisa sat back, stunned. “What is that about?”I said, “I don’t know.” I said. “That is what I am asking too. She spoke like someone who has been keeping something for a long time. Someone telling her to keep you in the dark is calling her during your session.”She sat down on the bed and blinked at me. She rubbed her forehead and then reached for the device. I felt guilty then because I had not given it back right away. It was her thing, and I had no right to listen to things she kept private.She turned it on again. I watche

Lisa's POV She was still on her knees. She caught at the hem of my coat. Her voice became prayer.“Please,” she said. “I did not mean to. They have power. They said they would find my son. They said they would hurt him. They said I had to do what they asked. It's a mother’s fear. I could not risk losing him.”I looked down at her. She was real. Her fear was real. Her tears were real. I had heard the call. I had heard the words. She had not denied them.“Why not tell the police?” I asked. “Why not tell someone who can protect him?”She shook her head so hard it made her hair move. “Don’t you think I tried?” she whispered. “They will know. They will punish my son to hurt me. They will make an example of me.”“You’re using your son as an excuse,” I said before I could stop myself. The words were sharp, and they surprised me. I did not want to be cruel, but I was too angry. “You kept me in the dark. You did not try hard enough.”She looked at me like a child who had been scolded. “I trie