I never told my sister-in-law that I was a Colonel in Army Intelligence!

Emily nodded slowly, grief and anger hardening into something sharper. “I should have stopped it. I let her stay. I made excuses.”

“You wanted to help your sister,” I said. “That wasn’t wrong. Keeping her here after she showed you who she was—that would have been wrong.”

Lily shifted under her blanket and looked up at me.