Chapter 9

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Daniel seized my arm. "That's incitement to murder." "Then arrest me." I didn't resist. I held out both hands. "You have the recording, my motive, and my confession. Tell the prosecutor I said those words even though I knew she might kill someone." The handcuffs brushed my wrists. Then he stopped. "Why?" "Because in the hospital, she finally learned to bathe alone, close her own door, and choose her own breakfast. For the six years after Nathan's death, she had more freedom than she'd ever known. "Then her parents brought her back to the same stage in the name of love." Before her release, Audrey had given a television interview. The reporter asked what she was looking forward to most. With her mother holding a cue card behind the camera, Audrey recited the prepared answer: going

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