My fists tightened around her shirt. “You were the child everyone protected,” she went on. “Damon said you were untainted by anything bad, and that’s what made you special to us. That quality needed to be preserved.” They talked about me? Together? Behind my back? “You never thought it was odd?” she pressed. “Damon and I had hated each other. What were we doing that night? How come I was the only person to know about his sister?” I assumed she was talking about Banks and not Rika. None of us found out about Banks until more than a year after we’d gotten out of prison. Emmy knew about her in
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