I walked out of the sitting room glad the police didn’t want to interrogate me yet. They probably felt he was saying all that because he was accused and it made me feel a rush of relief.

I opened the door to my bedroom and looked around. The mess I made on Emily’s bed was still there and I didn’t have the energy to clean up yet. I knew she wasn’t going to yell at me for messing up her bed because she wasn’t there and it hurt me to think of her absence.

I turned my face away and walked ...