Chapter 11 - The Woman Arthur Tried to Erase
Thomas Bell returned to testify.
With him came Evelyn's final recording.
Her voice shook, but her words did not.
She described Arthur's violence.
His theft.
His threats.
Most importantly, she described Norah.
"My daughter is not weak. Arthur only needs her to believe she is."
Norah cried.
Not because the words hurt.
Because for seventeen years she had remembered her mother's screams more clearly than her voice.
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Now she had both.
And one memory no longer belonged to Arthur.
