She Lied She Died by Carissa Ann Lynch

Author:Carissa Ann Lynch [Lynch, Carissa Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008421021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Chapter Twenty

Three truths.

One lie.

Chrissy Cornwall loved my brother.

My brother loved her back.

Jenny tried to hook up with him to get revenge.

Chrissy didn’t kill her.

I threw my wallet on the kitchen table, then started digging. I fished out two twenties and a couple ones and thrust them into Chrissy’s hand.

“Here’s money for a cab or Uber. I’ll even call one for you. But you have to leave. I need time to think.”

When she made no move to leave, the money frozen in her hand, I said, “Please.”

Chrissy looked like she was on the verge of tears. As bad as I felt for tossing her out, I couldn’t deal with her being here for one second longer. If she’s implying that my brother killed Jenny … no. No, I refuse to believe that.

“I can’t think straight. My head is throbbing…”

“But you didn’t even let me finish. I don’t necessarily think your brother killed her. I don’t have proof of that…” Chrissy said.

I was shaking, my head spinning like a tilt-o-whirl.

“Those first several years in prison, when he never wrote me back or came to see me … I was devastated. But then, he did. He was like an angel on the other side of the glass, with that messy hair of his … he hadn’t changed a bit…”

My brother visited Chrissy in prison? This is news to me…

“I thought he’d come to tell me the truth. To thank me for taking the fall. But then he asked me why I did it. Said he’d been trying to forgive me those first couple years but couldn’t understand. When I told him about Jenny going to the farmhouse, that I saw her going to see him … he swore he never slept with her. He said they talked for a while, then she went home. He thought all along that I was the one who killed her as she left that day. And I thought it was him who did it … I thought I was covering for him. Proving my love.”

“Well, of course he thought you did it, Chrissy, you confessed!” I said, exasperated.

“But I did it to protect him, don’t you see?! He never told the cops he was with her the night before. And … and … I thought I was doing the right thing. His future was so much brighter than mine…”

“That’s such bullshit, Chrissy. My brother didn’t kill her. He wouldn’t…”

But Chrissy was rambling now, talking more to herself than to me. “I— I thought he and I were the only ones who knew the truth. But, as it turns out, neither of us really knew it. I swore to him it wasn’t me … but, just like you, I don’t think he believed me. He said he saw her that night. He admitted to me that he was hanging out with her, even kissing her … but he swore she left. So, somewhere between your house and mine, that little girl was murdered. I thought it was him. He thought it was me.

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