Rose Without Her Jack
He pressed down harder.
"Speak!" His voice cut like ice. "You have three seconds. Or you can forget about ever talking again."
He signaled for someone to bring over a bottle of sulfuric acid. As the man tilted it forward, poised to pour, Chloe shrieked, terrified.
"I read her diary!" she blurted out.
Mickey raised a hand. The man holding the bottle stepped back.
Tears streamed down Chloe's face as she sobbed, "I read her diary… she wrote about the orphanage, about everything. That night, you were drunk… you called out 'Rose' in your sleep."