All Yours
I never meant for it to happen.
I was just the babysitter.
Nineteen, home from my first year of college, broke and bored in the suburbs. The Harrisons paid better than any other family—$25 an hour cash, plus bonuses when Mr. Harrison drove me home after late nights. He always slipped an extra fifty into my palm, fingers lingering just a second too long.
Lily was three, sweet and easy—dinner, bath, one story, lights out by 8 p.m.