Lily shook her head slowly.

And then she looked up, toward the hallway, and hesitated, the way a child hesitates on the edge of telling a secret they have been forbidden to tell.

“But,” she said, “there’s another phone.”

Chapter 6 — Another Phone

For a second I thought I had misheard her.

“Another phone?”

Lily nodded.

“It’s not her regular one.