Chapter 537

Wesley thought back to the diary Charles had shown him-the one Sandy had written.

She'd hidden it herself, wedged deep between the mattress and box spring.

Aiden had found it when he'd hired someone to clean out the lake house.

He gave it to Charles.

Charles read it, and then passed it on to Wesley.

Wesley could never forget how much his heart ached as he read Sandy's words.

Sandy had grown crooked.

But it was Dahlia who had twisted her.

She was just a child.

A little girl desperate for her mother's love.

From the moment she could remember, her biggest wish was for her mom to love her the way other moms loved their children.

She'd thought, if she just did everything her mother asked, if she was good and obedient, maybe one day her mom would love her.

If her mom didn't love her enough, it had to be because she wasn't good enough, because she hadn't done enough to make her mother proud.

So, when Dahlia told her to set up Charlie, she listened.

When Dahlia told her to frame Evelyn, she did it without question.

her to fake an illness and trick Charles into coming over, she

her mother would reward her a new dress,

miserable, hurting Evelyn and her daughter, was the right thing to

Dahlia's constant, poisonous influence, Sandy's sense of right and wrong

Dahlia who

her to her

thought about it,

Mom, I love you so much. Will

trembling with rage. "I wish I could cut your heart open and see if it's as black as

Dahlia's chest

sharp tip sliced through skin

could feel, with terrifying clarity, the knife splitting

over her, cold sweat

face drained of

through the silence.

terrified that the slightest movement

was wrong... I swear, I know I was wrong... Please, just

me this once, please?"

Wesley didn't even blink.

was

deliberately, leaving

above

gushed out, soaking her

button-down shirt in crime

cut was over, Dahlia's hair

cold sweat.

gasped for breath,

the pain had ended-but it had

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