Chapter 142

• Lily’s POV
• John’s hand clamped around me like a steel vise. I couldn’t breathe. The rest of my words stuck in my throat, and black spots swirled before my eyes.
• "You say you didn’t push her?" His voice rumbled like rolling thunder, every word coated in ice. "Didn’t push her? What, she threw herself down the stairs? Grace is at the end of her strength. Do you realize that a single fall could kill her? Why on earth would she risk her life? Lily, you weren’t like this… How did you become so ugly, so malicious?!"