“Ahnia!” Clap. “You in there?” Mac shouts.
lap.I open my eyes, again blurred with tears.
“For a second, I thought I’d lost you.”
He teases me with a voice every bit as dark as before.
“You know,” he says while grabbing up the camera by the base of its tripod in order to place it closer to me. “The fact that we’ve actually kept our secret this long is impressive.”
I grit my teeth and lie through a tight lip, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Oh, yes you do,” he says. “My stepdad finally died. Liver failure of all things. Go figure. I’ve been planning this for years, and now that he isn’t here to threaten me with my mom’s life, I finally get to follow through.”
finally“You have to stop this,” I beg.
“No, Ahnia! You have to stop this!” He shouts again, his voice echoing throu
