Connor nodded. “Alright.”
Louise sat alone in the interrogation room, completely lost. She still couldn’t wrap her head around how she had ended up at the police station. Her uncle, her mom… they’d all been arrested. Why? How did everything go so wrong?
When Lydia walked in and closed the door behind her, Louise’s eyes shot wide open. She shrank back in her chair, fear crawling up her spine.
“Who… who are you?” she stammered.
Even if she’d been naïve before, Louise could tell now that Lydia wasn’t just anybody. She was not someone you could mess with and walk away unscathed. But she had already crossed that line.
“You don’t need to know who I am. All you need to remember is that you were the one who cornered me with your people, then pretended to be the victim. You faked being sick in the hospital, tried to squeeze ten million out of me, and had your uncle bend the law to drag me into the police station.”
Lydia’s voice was cold, her whole presence sending chills through the air. Louise felt like she couldn’t breathe.
“I… I’m sorry, okay? I won’t press charges anymore. Just let me go. Please, let my mom and my uncle go too,” Louise begged, her eyes red and her voice trembling.
She could sense it—her uncle couldn’t protect the Stein family anymore. Their safety net was gone. And it was all because of the girl standing in front of her. Lydia was terrifying. She had gotten her uncle arrested, Leroy too. She’d only just found out that the Parker family had been taken in days earlier.

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