The cameras were beginning to prove that it was not.

Chapter 12 — Are You Ready

Detective Ramirez asked me to come to the station as soon as I was discharged.

When I arrived, three investigators were waiting in a conference room, with a laptop open on the table.

“We executed a search warrant and seized your mother’s digital devices,” Ramirez explained.

“We recovered cloud backups from her phone.”

Nausea moved through me in waves as I understood what that meant.

My mother had recorded that night.