“I don’t know.

She says if I tell you about the juice, you’ll believe her videos, and think I’m making things up.” It was, Marcus would realize later, the most chilling detail of all: that Sarah had prepared Lily’s own testimony to be disbelieved, had told the child in advance that her father would side with the videos over her own words.

It was the tactic of someone who had thought this through completely, who had anticipated the moment of discovery and armored against it.

And then Lily added something that Marcus had not expected at all.