The Truth Behind the Lie by Sara Lövestam

Author:Sara Lövestam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Then she lies on the bed for a while. Her scalp throbs and aches. She feels it to see if she’s lost much hair, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. She looks up at the ceiling and presses on her scalp, which starts to feel swollen after a time. She sighs and thinks about her mother. In the evenings, she can remember how her mother would hug her and make their supper, how they’d laugh at TV shows or do a puzzle. But during the days, the guilt takes over. Her mother had told her clearly what she should do if someone tried to kidnap her. Yell and run, her mother had said, and her voice echoes over and over: Yell and run. But she didn’t yell and she hadn’t run, so she let her own mother down. If she thinks about it too much, she starts to cry.

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