Want to Know a Secret?

by Freida McFadden

“Want to hear the wild part?” I lower my voice. “Riley told me she’s still insisting she didn’t kill Brianna.

But she confessed to killing Courtney Burns. Why wouldn’t she admit to killing Brianna?

“Well…” Maria sits back down next to me. “Maybe she did...

When he showed up here, I thought he was going to ask what happened to me a few nights ago.

I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was April. I squinted through the dimly lit parking lot at my daughter.

No...brianna

There was a shovel on the seat, like the kind for shoveling snow.

I lifted the shovel and brought it down on her skull. Again. And again.

I killed her. I killed my daughter.