All eyes widened, including Royce's.
"When I was little, I used to run into their room when I had a nightmare. One night, I had a nightmare and ran to my mom like always..."
"When I reached the door and opened it slightly, I saw him... He... I saw him strangle her. She was struggling to move, but he kept pressing his arms on her neck. I was too young to figure out what that could lead to since I was only four, but I felt bad."
"The next day, we were told that my mother died of an illness, and soon, I came to believe that he had actually strangled her to death."
Emily paused and turned to Jayden.
"I finally realized that he had killed her because she threatened to tell the truth about what happened to your father. That's why I had to speak up in the last case. He stopped being my father the day he killed my mother, but I didn't want to confront him because..."
"Because I knew it would take him nothing to kill me as well," she said, glaring at Gregory.
