“I don’t think Mark ever told me the truth,” she whispered.

She said she’d believed Ethan would die unless she cooperated.

Then someone entered the room with her.

Before the call ended, Sarah said, “I swear I didn’t know what they were going to do to Lily.”

The truth turned out to be worse than anything we’d imagined.

Ethan had never been treated at Creston. He had died more than a year earlier, during a private hospital stay in another state.