The Landline

'Gatlin thinks it's a bad idea to run but I can't think of anything better.'

'Dad, what if she comes after the rest of us when you and mum leave? If she won't stop at anything, then killing us all does not sound far-fetched.' I said.

I was not even scared of the fact that I could die. I was more worried that Emily was in the four walls of a prison cell, and she still had enough power to control what was happening outside.

'Your mum and I are who she wants. I doubt she's that heartless.' He said.

I immediately remembered Lily who she loved more than anything in the world but she brought herself to give her a slow and painful death. If Emily could do that to her daughter, nobody could escape her wrath.

'She is heartless, dad. She killed your daughter, Lily.' 

Dad and I had not had the Lily is my sister conversation yet and I did not want to have it in that hospital room but there was no way I could escape it. I had dropped it like hot food.