Every warning about putting property under her name.
I understood then that Hannah had been right from the beginning.
The turning point came when Courtney accidentally dropped her phone in the hallway.
The screen lit up.
One message instantly caught Detective Morales’s attention.
“If she holds out one more day, Ethan will blame her instead of us.”
The detective seized the device immediately.
My mother screamed in protest.
But the situation only became worse.
Investigators found voice recordings saved on the phone.
One recording captured Hannah pleading for help while Owen cried in the background.
Then my mother’s voice came through clearly.
“You wanted to run this household so badly. Figure it out yourself.”
Courtney’s laughter followed.
“If Ethan asks, we’ll just tell him she refused to feed the baby.”
The entire room went completely still.
My mother tried to say the recording was fake.
No one believed her.
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