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00:00My husband locked me in a rusted dog cage. The metal bars bit into my knees. I wrapped both arms
00:07around my stomach.
00:08Wendy spent ten minutes in the water. You'll stay in there for two days.
00:12I grabbed the freezing bars and begged him. Begged for its life. He shoved the cage over the edge. The
00:18freezing water swallowed me whole.
00:21Two days later, he had the cage hauled up. But all that came up was a curled, lifeless body.
00:27My dress wasn't just soaked. It was stained a vivid, horrific red. He clawed at my ruined corpse, howling like
00:36a madman.
00:37You wanted this, Eric. So why are you crying?
00:40I hovered near the ceiling, watching my husband wrap my sister in a cashmere blanket, while my corpse rotted at
00:47the bottom of his lake.
00:48Outside, a freezing storm was tearing our estate apart. He'd left me out there for two whole days.
00:55Madam has been out by the lake for two whole days. Shouldn't we let her back inside?
01:03My husband, Eric, didn't even look up from the couch. He just scoffed.
01:07Chloe grew up in foster care. Little rain won't kill her.
01:10On the sofa, my sister Wendy let out a weak, perfectly timed cough.
01:15She huddled deeper under the blanket, forcing out crocodile tears.
01:19Eric, please, don't punish my sister for me. She just made a mistake.
01:26Eric's face softened. He pulled her into his arms, stroking her hair.
01:30But when he spoke about me, his voice was pure ice.
01:33When she tied you up and threw you in the lake, did she care?
01:37If I hadn't come home, you'd be dead.
01:39He promised her that when I finally came out, he'd make me kneel.
01:43People said I'd stay out there until I begged for forgiveness.
01:46I floated above them, no body, no breath, just watching.
01:50Beg for forgiveness.
01:52I couldn't even if I wanted to.
01:54Two days ago, the dock, Wendy, had been tied up and tossed into the water.
01:59I didn't know it was a setup then.
02:01I just saw my sister sinking.
02:03I jumped in, hauled her coughing, shivering body back to the surface.
02:08Eric's car pulled up right at that second.
02:10He didn't see a rescue.
02:12He saw his wicked wife drowning his fragile, precious Wendy.
02:16He didn't ask questions.
02:17He didn't let me speak.
02:19He just barked an order to his bodyguards.
02:22They dragged out the massive metal dog crate, the one we used for the mastiffs.
02:27You want to bully Wendy?
02:28Then you can see how it feels yourself.
02:31Two massive men grabbed my arms.
02:33I dug my heels into the mud,
02:35scraped my fingernails across the wooden dock until they bled.
02:39Eric, please.
02:40I didn't hurt her.
02:41I am pregnant.
02:42I screamed it.
02:44I thought that would stop him, even if he hated me.
02:46He just stared down at me.
02:48Dead eyes.
02:49You'll say anything to avoid punishment, huh?
02:51Put her in.
02:52The guards didn't hesitate.
02:54They shoved me inside the rusted metal box.
02:57They slammed the heavy iron door shut.
02:59Crack.
03:00White hot agony exploded up my spine.
03:03I shrieked, clawed at the bars.
03:05Heavy chains rattled.
03:07A boot slammed into the metal grate.
03:10The crate tipped off the edge.
03:11I hit the freezing lake.
03:13Icy water surged through the bars.
03:15It swallowed my legs, my waist, my chest.
03:19The crate rocked violently in the black water.
03:22I had to tilt my head back.
03:24I lasted one day and one night.
03:26The temperature dropped.
03:28Warm liquid trickled down my inner thighs.
03:31It bloomed outward, staining the black water.
03:34My heart stuttered.
03:35My vision went dark.
03:36The last thing I felt was the water rising over my mouth.
03:40Now, Eric sits by the fire, waiting for my apology.
03:44Tomorrow, they drag the lake.
03:46I floated two feet above the expensive Persian rug,
03:50watching my husband gently wipe tears from my sister's cheeks,
03:54while my actual corpse was currently locked in a steel dog crate
03:58at the bottom of his private lake.
04:00Wendy was putting on the performance of a lifetime,
04:03looking up at Eric through wet, innocent eyelashes.
04:07Eric, please, let her out.
04:09I know she grew up in foster care.
04:11I know she's unstable.
04:13Just let it go.
04:14She leaned into his chest.
04:16My husband held her like she was made of spun glass.
04:20Eric's voice was pure ice.
04:22He told her that if he didn't teach me a lesson,
04:25I'd never learn.
04:27But for her, he'd make a concession.
04:30He pressed the intercom on his mahogany desk.
04:33Um, bring that woman back inside.
04:36Eric turned back to Wendy, his eyes softening.
04:39He promised her that when they dragged me in,
04:41I'd have exactly ten minutes to apologize to her.
04:45If I refused, my punishment would get worse.
04:48Ten minutes.
04:49I looked down at my own transparent, glowing hands.
04:52Even if he gave me ten thousand years, I couldn't do it.
04:56Mostly because my lungs were currently full of freezing lake water.
05:00The grandfather clock ticked.
05:03Eric drummed his fingers on the leather armrest.
05:06Getting annoyed, what's taking so long?
05:08The heavy oak double doors slammed open.
05:11Herman stumbled into the living room.
05:14Rain poured off his heavy wool coat.
05:16Pooling on the hardwood, his chest heaved.
05:20Pure panic in his eyes.
05:21Sir, the crate, the dog crate, it's gone.
05:27Eric froze.
05:28His hand stopped midair.
05:30The buoys snapped.
05:32The lake flooded.
05:34I went to pull the rope and it was empty.
05:38The old butler looked up, trembling.
05:40Sir, if madam was still inside, in this weather, she might already be.
05:48Dead silence in the living room.
05:50Only the sound of the storm pounding against the glass.
05:54Wendy clapped a hand over her mouth.
05:56A perfect theatrical gasp.
05:58I drifted right up to Eric's face.
06:00Inches away, I watched his dark eyelashes tremble.
06:04Would he break?
06:05Would the reality of what he just did finally crush him?
06:08Instead, his face shifted.
06:11No shock.
06:12No grief.
06:13A twisted, mocking smile spread across his lips.
06:17He snorted, like it was the absolute funniest joke he'd heard all year.
06:21He shoved his hands into his pockets and paced toward the window.
06:25She grew up in foster care.
06:28She'd fight a stray dog for half a loaf of bread.
06:31She knows how to pick locks.
06:33The words slid right through my ghost of a chest.
06:37A cold, sharp blade.
06:39She broke it herself.
06:40She waited for the storm and staged her own death.
06:45Search the roads.
06:46Fire any staff member caught sneaking me food.
06:49Herman didn't dare say another word.
06:52He practically ran out of the room.
06:54The living room went quiet again.
06:57Wendy walked up behind Eric.
06:59She pressed her cheek against his spine, whispering about how cruel I was.
07:04Eric covered her hands with his own.
07:06His voice dropped to a soft, vicious whisper.
07:09I hovered near the crystal chandelier.
07:12I watched their shadows entwine.
07:14Let him search the roads.
07:15Let him check the cameras.
07:17I wasn't going anywhere.
07:19I stood shoulder to shoulder with my husband while he screamed at 50 guards.
07:24To drain the estate lake and drag me out.
07:27He tapped his heavy gold watch, rolling his eyes.
07:30He thought I was throwing a tantrum.
07:32Hiding.
07:33Pulling some childish stunt for attention.
07:36Funny how water keeps defining my history with this man.
07:39Seven years ago, I was a part-time lifeguard on a public beach.
07:44Red flag warning.
07:46The waves were violently rough.
07:48I watched a tiny black dot get sucked out into a rip current.
07:52Nobody else dared to jump in.
07:54So I dove.
07:55I fought the undertow for 20 minutes.
07:58Dragged him onto the wet sand.
08:00And did CPR until he coughed up a lungful of salty ocean water.
08:05His deep brown eyes fluttered open.
08:07Three years later, we bumped into each other in a crowded city square.
08:12He recognized me instantly.
08:14He chased me like a man possessed.
08:17Filled my cramped apartment with red roses.
08:20Booked out entire restaurants.
08:22Held my hand even when I tried to pull away.
08:25He pressed my knuckles to his lips.
08:27Told me I was a miracle.
08:29The light of his life.
08:30I spent 18 years bouncing between foster homes.
08:33I never knew what it meant to be chosen by anyone.
08:37So I fell for it.
08:38I thought I finally had a home.
08:40That dream shattered the second I put on my wedding dress.
08:44The minister literally opened his mouth to read the vows.
08:48Eric's butler sprinted up the church aisle and whispered frantically in his ear.
08:53Eric dropped my hands.
08:54His face drained of color.
08:56Wendy's back from overseas.
08:58She's upset at the airport.
09:00He turned around and ran.
09:02Left me standing at the altar in white tulle.
09:05In front of 200 whispering guests.
09:08That very same night, he brought Wendy back to our newlywed house.
09:13He dumped her designer bags in the guest room.
09:16Told me she wasn't well.
09:17She had nowhere else to go.
09:19She was his childhood friend.
09:21Just a sister.
09:22An hour later, Eric stepped into the shower.
09:25Wendy knocked on the master bedroom door.
09:28Holding a velvet gift box.
09:29Chloe, I'm so sorry for ruining your wedding.
09:33This is my gift to you.
09:35I reached out to take it.
09:37She smiled, yanked her hand back, and threw the box violently onto the hardwood floor.
09:43Then she raised her own hand and slapped herself across the face.
09:48Hard.
09:48A bright red handprint swelled on her pale cheek in seconds.
09:52She dropped to her knees, clutched her face, and started screaming.
09:58Wailing, the bathroom door flew open.
10:01Eric rushed out.
10:02A towel slung around his waist.
10:05He saw her sobbing on the floor.
10:07He saw me standing over her.
10:09Wendy buried her wet face into his bare chest.
10:12Begged him not to blame me.
10:14Said it was her own fault for coming back.
10:16Eric looked up at me.
10:18All the tenderness from the past three years vanished.
10:21Replaced by a cold, bone-deep disgust.
10:24Chloe, are you out of your mind?
10:26Wendy is like a sister to me.
10:28How could you be so cruel to a helpless girl?
10:31I stood there with my mouth open.
10:33I didn't even get to defend myself.
10:35From that second on, the man who called me his savior became my judge and jury.
10:41The memory faded like smoke.
10:43I drifted back into the present, floating a few feet behind Eric as he paced the living room.
10:49These useless idiots.
10:50How can it take this long to find one person?
10:53Wendy, grab your coat.
10:55I want to see what kind of stunt she's pulling.
10:57Once we catch her, I'm not going easy.
10:59Wendy obediently slipped her arm through his.
11:02A sly, triumphant smile curled on her lips where he couldn't see.
11:07We walked out into the freezing night down to the water's edge.
11:11Dozens of estate guards stood shoulder to shoulder on the muddy banks.
11:15Total silence.
11:16Just the deafening roar of the massive industrial pumps.
11:20Sucking the last gallons of water from the lake bed.
11:23Nobody looked up.
11:24Nobody spoke.
11:25Their bodies were trembling.
11:27Who told you to drain the lake?
11:28I said, find her.
11:29The crowd parted.
11:31The old butler, Herman, stood at the very front.
11:34His back to us, stiff as a statue.
11:36He slowly turned around.
11:38His face was the color of chalk paper.
11:40His lips shook so violently he could barely form words.
11:44Sir, please take a look yourself.
11:46He stepped aside.
11:48Eric stomped to the edge of the embankment and looked down into the black mud.
11:53His pupils shrank to pinpoints.
11:55The steel crate was wedged between two jagged rocks at the bottom.
11:59The heavy metal door was still perfectly padlocked.
12:03No sign it had ever been opened.
12:05And inside the crate, curled into a tight, pale ball against the freezing mud, was my lifeless body, frozen in
12:13my last desperate pose.
12:16Arms stretched through the iron bars, shielding my stomach, the exact same hands that tore through the ocean waves to
12:24save his life.
12:25Seven years ago, now raw, bloody, and locked inside his cage.
12:30I hovered ten feet in the air, watching my husband dig my corpse out, out of a drained, muddy lake
12:38bed.
12:38All because he wanted to impress his mistress.
12:41Wendy let out a piercing scream, digging her manicured nails into his arm.
12:46But for the first time in his life, Eric didn't turn to comfort her.
12:50He stood completely frozen at the edge of the bank, staring down at the rusted iron crate resting in the
12:56sludge.
12:57The cold, arrogant smirk he always wore just shattered, wiped clean off his face.
13:03He shoved past the old butler, stumbled blindly down the steep incline.
13:08His tailored suit hit the mud.
13:10He didn't care. He didn't even pause.
13:13He scrambled on all fours like a desperate, starving animal, until he crashed into the iron bars.
13:20Chloe, get out of there. Open your eyes.
13:22He pounded his fists against the metal, screaming at me to stop faking it.
13:28He actually thought I'd painted my face white just to spite him, as if rigor mortis was my latest manipulative
13:34party trick.
13:35The me inside the crate didn't flinch.
13:38I was already cold, stiff, gone.
13:40Unlock it. Get out of my way.
13:42He snatched the keys from the trembling butler, snapped the heavy lock open,
13:47shoved his arm deep into that filthy, narrow space, and grabbed my shoulder.
13:52I watched his fingers flinch.
13:54He wasn't touching warm, living skin anymore.
13:57Just a frozen, solid block of ice.
14:00He dragged my body out into the blinding daylight.
14:03It wasn't easy.
14:04I was still curled up in a tight, agonized fetal position.
14:08The freezing water and the terror had locked my bones in place.
14:12A collective gasp rippled through the crowd of servants on the shore.
14:17Then, dead, suffocating silence, they all saw the skirt.
14:21Dark, heavy, dried blood.
14:24It started between my legs, coated my thighs, soaked all the way down to my ruined, muddy shoes.
14:31A massive, undeniable stain.
14:33Eric's hands shook violently.
14:35He reached for my flat stomach, then jerked his fingers back like he'd grabbed a live wire.
14:41The last of his sanity crumbled right there in the mud, two days ago, right before he ordered them to
14:48lock me in that crate.
14:49I clawed at his legs and screamed that I was pregnant, that we were having a baby.
14:54He looked down at me and called me a pathetic liar, said I'd invent any disgusting story just to avoid
15:00a timeout in the lake.
15:02Now, his little timeout was a blood-soaked corpse in his arms, the sharpest knife buried straight into his chest.
15:09An awful, broken animal scream tore out of his throat.
15:13He dropped his head, cradling my frozen face against his chest, rocking back and forth in the sludge.
15:19No, get a doctor. Hurry.
15:21Chloe, wake up.
15:22You win.
15:23Okay, I give up.
15:24I won't punish you anymore.
15:26Just tell me this isn't real.
15:28You win.
15:29That's what he said.
15:30He really thought my suffering was just a game of chicken.
15:34Up on the shore, Wendy's face was chalk white.
15:37She clutched her expensive coat, tight against her chest, her whole body shaking.
15:42She wasn't looking at Eric.
15:44She wasn't playing the fragile victim anymore.
15:47Her eyes darted frantically through the crowd of guards, searching for a specific face, avoiding everyone's gaze.
15:55Down in the mud, Eric's head suddenly snapped up.
15:58The grief vanished in a second.
16:00His eyes went completely wild, murderous.
16:03The rope I told you to keep the crate floating.
16:06Who let it sink?
16:07The head of security walked forward.
16:09His hands trembled as he held out the frayed end of a mooring rope.
16:13Eric snatched it, stared at the severed fibers.
16:16Sir, it didn't snap.
16:20Someone cut it with a knife.
16:22Eric slowly turned his head, glaring up at the terrified crowd on the bank.
16:27Wendy took a slow, silent step backward, melting her body into the shadows of the trees.
16:34My husband thought he was just teaching me a harsh lesson.
16:37He had no idea someone else used his cruelty to commit a murder.
16:42Wendy stood over my soaking wet corpse, looking paler than I did.
16:46She was the fragile little bird my husband loved.
16:49And she was the woman trying to cover up my murder.
16:52The rain was washing the mud off my dead face, and she couldn't take her eyes off it.
16:58She took a shaky breath, stepped closer to Eric.
17:01Eric, please, just stop.
17:04Let's arrange the funeral right away.
17:06Don't let her stay out here in the rain.
17:09Smart move, Wendy.
17:10Put me in the ground.
17:12Bury the evidence.
17:13Then go right back to playing the innocent lady of the manor.
17:17But Eric didn't let go of me.
17:19His fingers were locked around the frayed edge of the rope tied to my waist.
17:24He was staring at it, unblinking.
17:26Nobody touches her until I find out who cut the rope.
17:29Wendy's pupils shrank to pinpricks.
17:31She stumbled back a step, clutched her chest with both hands.
17:35A choked moan slipped out, and her knees buckled.
17:38For three years, a single gasp from Wendy meant Eric would drop everything.
17:44Eric didn't even look up.
17:45He kept his eyes locked on my pale face, just barked over his shoulder at the butler.
17:51Take her inside.
17:52Get the doctor.
17:53She's getting in my way here.
17:55Wendy froze in the mud.
17:56She hadn't expected that.
17:58She recovered fast, leaned heavily on a maid, sobbing into her hands as they dragged her away
18:04from the suffocating lakeshore.
18:06I didn't stay with Eric.
18:08Watching him lose his mind meant nothing to me anymore.
18:11I drifted after Wendy, a ghost stalking a snake.
18:15The second they rounded the corner of the garden, out of Eric's sight, the dying woman
18:20straightened her spine.
18:22She violently shoved the maid away.
18:24All the weakness vanished from her face.
18:26It twisted into pure rage.
18:28She hiked up her soaked skirt and marched down a muddy path into the dark.
18:33Behind a massive banyan tree, a shadow was waiting.
18:37The estate gardener.
18:38He was shaking so hard, his teeth chattered.
18:41Mumbling about Eric going crazy.
18:43Wendy grabbed him by the collar, slammed him back against the wet bark.
18:48Her perfectly manicured nails dug right into his chest.
18:52Take the cash and get out.
18:54If you get caught and start talking, I'll send your wife and daughter straight to hell
18:59with Chloe.
19:00She shoved a thick envelope into his hands.
19:03He snatched it, nodding frantically and scrambled away into the pouring rain.
19:08Wendy finally slumped against the tree.
19:11She stared down at her ruined, muddy shoes.
19:14A bitter, ragged laugh spilled out of her throat.
19:17I drifted right up to her face.
19:19Looked into her panicked, guilty eyes.
19:22Oh, Wendy.
19:23I haven't even started yet.
19:25I hovered ten feet above my own corpse,
19:28watching my husband wipe the mud from my dead face.
19:32While his mistress lied to our butler in the pouring rain.
19:35Fifty yards away, Wendy spun around like a cat with its tail crushed.
19:40Her voice cracked.
19:42She was staring down the barrel of Herman's black umbrella.
19:45Mess, Wendy.
19:47Didn't you say your heart was acting up?
19:49How do you have the strength to run all the way out here?
19:52Herman just gave her a long, deadpan look.
19:55My eyelids, once sealed tight by the sludge, were now parted just a fraction.
20:00Eric knelt in the mud.
20:01His shaking fingers gently cleared the dirt from my cheekbones.
20:05His voice sounded like it was dragged over broken glass.
20:09How did you get so light?
20:12Now they were scraped to the bone, bruised purple, torn to shreds.
20:17I watched the memory physically strike him.
20:20His broad shoulders jerked.
20:22Before we were married, he ran a massive fever.
20:25I knelt by his bed.
20:27My knees were numb and bruised the next morning.
20:30But his fever broke.
20:31Back then, he actually saw me.
20:34Then Wendy came back.
20:35Eric brushed his thumb over my stiff blue lips.
20:38A tear slipped off his jaw.
20:40But these past two months, I...
20:42I never listened to you.
20:44Not once.
20:45He was sobbing.
20:46Now, ugly.
20:47Full body heaves over my ruined corpse.
20:50But two days ago, I was begging for my life in the dark.
20:54Cry louder.
20:55Eric, I'm going to watch you lose everything.
20:58I hovered three feet above the muddy grass, watching my husband sob over my own mangled corpse.
21:04The rain was freezing, but ghosts don't feel the cold.
21:08A commotion erupted on the east side of the estate.
21:12Flashlights cut through the dark.
21:14A dull thud.
21:15The head of security dragged a man across the yard, dumped him right at Eric's feet, like a dead animal.
21:22It was our gardener.
21:23He didn't make it far.
21:25Security tossed a soaked envelope onto the ground, stuffed with cash.
21:29Then a folding knife.
21:31The blade perfectly matched the cut marks on the rope.
21:34Eric slowly lifted his head.
21:36His tears hadn't dried.
21:38But his eyes were completely dead.
21:40Darker than the water that just drowned me.
21:42Who put you up to this?
21:43His voice came out terrifyingly calm.
21:46He told the man not to lie.
21:48Said, I'd always been good to the staff.
21:51The gardener took one look at my ruined body and broke.
21:54It was Miss Wendy.
21:56She gave me the cash.
21:59He dropped to his knees, banged his forehead right into the mud.
22:03She told me to cut the rope during the storm.
22:06Said it was the only way your wife would disappear for good.
22:10Hearing her name, Eric's whole body violently flinched.
22:13He couldn't process it.
22:15Wendy.
22:16His sweet, fragile Wendy.
22:18The woman he chose over me.
22:20But the gardener wasn't done trying to save his own skin.
22:23He screamed out the rest of the truth.
22:26Your wife never tried to throw Wendy in the lake before.
22:31Wendy paid me to tie her up in the shallows.
22:34Dead silence.
22:36The rain kept pouring.
22:38Nobody moved.
22:39Not one inch.
22:40Eric's face froze entirely.
22:42The blood drained right out of his cheeks.
22:45Wendy found out your wife was pregnant.
22:48She went crazy.
22:50She set it up.
22:52So you'd hate her.
22:54So you'd get rid of the baby yourself.
22:56Floating above them, I watched the exact moment my husband's soul shattered.
23:02It was such a simple, brilliant trap.
23:04Wendy bet everything on Eric's blind distrust of me.
23:08She handed him the knife and he plunged it right into my pregnant belly.
23:12A horrible, wet, gagging sound broke the silence.
23:16Eric doubled over.
23:17He dry heaved into the mud violently until nothing came up.
23:21He stumbled backward, slipping, gasping for air like a drowning man.
23:26His spine hit my wooden travel crate with a loud crack.
23:30He slowly raised his trembling hands, stared at his empty palms.
23:35Those hands used to hold my face, used to swear they'd keep me safe forever.
23:39I killed her.
23:40I helped Wendy kill my own child.
23:42He grabbed handfuls of his own hair, pulled so hard I thought his scalp would tear.
23:48The scream that tore out of his throat didn't sound human, raw, desperate.
23:53The wail of a dying beast bleeding out in the dirt.
23:57I stared down at him.
23:58Not a single drop of pity left in my chest.
24:01You finally know the truth, Eric.
24:03Now, let's see what you do to her.
24:05My husband kicked down his mistress's bedroom door,
24:09dragging the man who murdered me by the collar.
24:11The gardener was shaking so hard his knees buckled.
24:15Eric threw him across the room.
24:16She flinched, clutched the expensive blankets tight to her chest.
24:21Repeat what you said by the lake.
24:24The gardener pointed a filthy, trembling finger straight at Wendy.
24:28He spilled it all.
24:29Wendy's face drained of color.
24:32She scrambled backward against the headboard.
24:34Eric didn't argue.
24:35He just stepped forward, grabbed the collar of her silk nightgown.
24:39He shook her so hard her teeth rattled.
24:42And right then, the mask finally cracked.
24:44Wendy shoved him back, screamed that she wanted me dead.
24:48Eric let out a harsh, bitter laugh.
24:50He opened his hands.
24:52He didn't even look at her, just called for the cops waiting in the hall.
24:56Cold steel snapped around Wendy's wrists.
24:59The click echoed off the walls.
25:01The cops dragged her out by her armpits.
25:04Her perfect face was twisted and ugly.
25:06The house went dead quiet.
25:08For days, Eric just sat there, eerily calm.
25:11He sat at the dining table, signing page after page of thick legal documents.
25:16The lawyer's hands were shaking.
25:18He asked if Eric was sure.
25:20I don't need it.
25:22It's my way of atoning.
25:24He buttoned his jacket, adjusted his tie, walked out the back door, straight toward the lake.
25:30They'd refilled the water.
25:32My iron cage was sitting on the grass.
25:35Eric dropped to his knees in the dirt.
25:37He reached out.
25:39He wrapped his arms around the heavy crate, hugged it to his chest.
25:43He walked into the dark water.
25:45Didn't hesitate.
25:47Didn't stop.
25:47A huge splash.
25:49The sheer weight of the iron dragged him under instantly.
25:53I floated down after him, watched him sink.
25:55The icy water flooded his nose and mouth.
25:58His lungs seized.
26:00His legs kicked in pure panic, fighting the drowning.
26:03But his arms stayed locked around that cage.
26:06In his final second, his eyes flew open.
26:09He stared through the murky water.
26:11A stream of silver bubbles escaped his lips.
26:14I read his mouth.
26:15His body went completely still.
26:17He hit the muddy bottom of the lake.
26:19Wendy got a life sentence.
26:21Lost her mind in a cell, screaming at concrete walls.
26:25I drifted back to the place I grew up.
26:27Watched the kids running in the yard.
26:30I looked down.
26:31My hands were turning into countless points of light.
26:34The nightmare was finally done.
26:36I closed my eyes and let the wind carry me.
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