Rain didn’t just fall that night; it skinned Adele Fairbanks alive. Glass, sirens, her sister’s mustard-smeared hot dog sliding down the windshield like a joke told at a funeral — every second of that crash became the Fairbanks family’s favorite alibi. “You cost us everything,” her father would hiss; her mother would fold into silence, Brinn would roll her eyes and slam a door. Years later, when Adele slid behind the wheel with seven million dollars in her account, a muddy photograph on the passenger seat, and the farmhouse listing pulled up on her phone, she thought she finally understood the shape of their cruelty. She didn’t know the worst part was still waiti… Continues…
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