I Will Never Let You Take Her Again

Summary

My sister’s classmate asked her over for a sleepover, and I dropped her off at the front gate.

The next day, my sister didn't come home.

The police finally located her twenty-four hours later in an abandoned auto body shop on the outskirts of town. When we brought her to the emergency room, the medical report came back with four words that shattered our lives: Evidence of sexual assault.

After that night, Sadie flinched at the mere shadow of any man. On her fifteenth birthday, she walked up to the gravel roof of our apartment building and stepped over the ledge.