Chapter 4 - WHAT LILY SAWDaniel refused to interrogate Lily himself.
A child specialist spoke with her instead.
Her account stayed simple.
She had gone upstairs looking for a sweater.
Eleanor was inside Daniel’s study holding papers.
Lily asked:
“What are you hiding?”
Eleanor became angry and told her to leave.
Lily walked toward the staircase.
Eleanor followed.
Then came the moment Daniel had witnessed.
“Did Grandma kick you?” the specialist asked.
Lily shook her head.
“No.”
That matched Daniel’s memory.
Eleanor’s kick passed dangerously close.
Lily recoiled.
Her foot slipped.
She fell.
Daniel hated the distinction, but it mattered.
Eleanor had endangered Lily without physically kicking her.
Then Lily remembered something else.
“Grandma said Daddy was ruining everything.”
Daniel later asked what Eleanor meant.
Lily did not know.
“She was talking to someone before I came in.”
“On the phone?”
Lily nodded.
“Did you hear who?”
“No.”
No recording existed.
No second witness.
Daniel refused to guess.
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But one question now consumed him.
What exactly did Eleanor think Daniel was about to ruin?
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