“Somehow,” I whisper. “He had a stroke.” I wipe my face with a hand. “I thought I killed him. But I didn’t. Then I got strapped down to the bed, and the staff called my mom. And she took me back home from Alton.”
This is the big secret ?! You didn’t even kill him. And your mother had the AUDACITY to threaten you with this ??? Wooowww.