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better be dead.”

“Not yet,” I said.

That woke her up.

I told her what I had found. Not everything. I couldn’t. The words were too ugly and too many. I told her there were recordings of my mother physically and verbally abusing Ava. I told her my mother had threatened to fabricate evidence against my wife. I told her I wanted her removed from my home immediately continue reading …