SORRY MR. CROWNELL YOU'RE TOO LATE
It was easier to control the narrative when nobody questioned a grieving widow's decision to disappear entirely from public life.
The paper slipped slightly in my trembling grip. "Lily's mother is alive," I whispered, horror and disbelief crashing through me simultaneously.
"This entire time, she's been kept somewhere, drugged, isolated, believing everyone she loved was dead."
"There's an address," Rachelle said, pointing toward a location scrawled in the margin. "A private facility, two hours outside the city."
My mind raced violently, processing the implications. If Lily's actual mother remained alive somewhere, sedated and manipulated exactly like Sarah had been, then everything we unders