Millie and Loren, who had followed little Leah out, were all waiting for Lily to come out of the car. Millie realized the time for confrontation had arrived so she sent them all in as she waited for Lily.
“Why did you do this? You are my best friend, a loved member of our family and yet you dragged my grandson … our Derrick …. Our family into all this …. How could you do this to us, Millie … how?”
“How could I do this to you? … to our Derrick …. our family? Lily, how can you of all people ask me this …. I never had a choice in all this ….. not back then and certainly not now. If it were up to me, that fire … that horrible night would not have happened.”
“I know …. but …. but this is our boy ….”, Lily cried helplessly.
“We are mere pawns in all of this. This sequence of events was writt
