My In-Laws Broke My Leg and My Husband Said “Let Her Learn to Obey” — Three Days Later They Strolled Into My Hospital Room to Mock Me, So I Stayed Silent, and My Lawyer Stepped Out From Behind the Curtain and Pressed Play on a Recording They Never Knew Existed
And then I started to think — because I was not, whatever Garrett believed, a stupid woman, and there was work to do while they still thought I was locked in their kitchen.
Chapter 7 — The Phone
Nurse Annie closed the door so the room was private, and a little while later Amanda came in to see me, her eyes red.
She told me she had heard sounds from our house for months — raised voices, and worse — and had never known what she was allowed to do about it, and had hated herself for the not-knowing.
And then she pressed something into my hand: a cheap prepaid phone with a fresh SIM card, so that no one could trace a call to me.
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