“No…” Ethan whispered.
The room spun around him.
“No… I buried you.”
Emily looked down.
“I know.”
Vanessa suddenly stepped forward.
“Ethan, this is insane! She’s lying!”
But Noah held Emily tighter.
“No! She’s Mommy!”
Emily slowly looked at Ethan.
“The accident wasn’t an accident.”
Silence.
Ethan’s heart stopped.
“What?”
She swallowed hard.
“The car that hit me… someone paid for it.”
Vanessa’s face lost all color.
Ethan turned toward her.
Slowly.
Very slowly.
“No…” he said.
Vanessa stepped backward.
“Ethan, don’t look at me like that.”
Emily’s voice cracked.
“When I woke up in the hospital, I heard everything.”
Ethan stared.
“Heard what?”
Emily looked directly at Vanessa.
“I heard her telling someone…”
She inhaled shakily.
“Make sure Ethan never finds out she survived.”
Vanessa froze.
The crowd gasped.
Ethan looked at the woman standing beside him…
The woman he almost married.
Then he whispered:
“Vanessa… what did you do?”
Vanessa’s eyes widened.
And suddenly—
She ran.
