Home Entertainment Game Technology Advertisement Part 2: For eight years, my parents made me leave the house every time my brother brought his fiance over; Mom said, “She comes from a good family, don’t embarrass us”; Dad added, “Just disappear for the weekend”; I did; then one weekend, I never came back; it took them four years to find out where I went.

My hands began shaking violently.

"She told the doctor Stacey must never remember what happened."

I stared at the recorder.

The woman from the farm.

Grandma Ruth.

The woman who saved me.

The woman who gave me a new life.

The woman who'd left behind all these documents.

Nina began crying.

"I don't understand. I thought she was helping us."

A pause.

Then the recording ended.

***

For several seconds, nobody spoke.

I stared at Avery.

Her face had turned white.

"No," she whispered.

I looked down at Ruth's photograph.

The woman who held me when I escaped.

Who told me I was brave.

Who taught me how to grow roses.

Had she been involved from the beginning?

Had she known what happened to Nina?

And if so, why had she spent the rest of her life trying to uncover the truth?

My phone vibrated.

A message from Detective Grant.

**STACEY, WE FOUND THE MISSING HOSPITAL RECORDER.**