Kate is in the kitchen when Max sees red liquid in the sink.She looked a little nervous, but she returned to normal after discovering that it was Max and Barry who came, and the wine bottle was hidden behind her, which was too clumsy.

"What's the matter?" Kate put the empty wine bottle in the cabinet at random, and she felt very strange when she saw Max holding her daughter's hand.

"It's better to sit down and talk," Max didn't answer directly.

"You want to leave? I just checked the weather forecast again, and the tornado will be tonight. It's not safe to leave now, at least you can't be on the road full of danger at night." Kate sat down on the sofa, she looked Looking tired, she shed all pretense after John and Esther left the house.

"That's not true, ma'am. We want to talk to you about Esther." Barry replied for Max, like a heart-to-heart, hey?Does he have a heart-to-heart with a lesbian? This is too strange.

"Esther? Did my adopted daughter do something?" Kate's expression was flat.

"I saw something on the walls of her room last night that didn't look like a child could draw. They glowed in the dark. It was a special kind of paint. There are some words that I think Max said. It's better, she understands sign language." Barry didn't say anything about Esther standing in front of his bathroom last night, and then he saw Max making fun of him, and Barry read the meaning of her expression in a second, He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, a girl like a child.Is Max the fantastic unicorn?

After hearing Barry's words, Kate held the cup tightly in her hand and made a reassuring gesture to Max.Max was asking her what Barry was saying, but she didn't sign for her.Kate knows that Max and Esther have a good relationship. Although she doesn't like Esther and doesn't want to describe her little daughter like this, sometimes Max is like Esther's follower. Kate was not satisfied with her obedience.

Except for those abnormalities, such as locking the door in the shower, praying before meals, the Bible, strange clothes and shocking precocity.Kate always felt that Esther gave her a sense of disobedience, which broke out after Esther cut off the white rose that commemorated her dead daughter.She knows that Esther is not that simple, and that this girl is declaring war on her.

Esther is too obedient in front of John, John likes her, and she even successfully fooled the psychiatrist.Abigail specifically told her about Esther's weirdness, but died inexplicably on the way back.Although she had some doubts, Esther was just a teenage girl, which made it impossible for her to think about it, otherwise it would be too scary.

"Max told me something yesterday." Max's tone was relaxed, she took out the key to the tree house and put it on the table, and continued, "Esther killed Sister Abigail and hid the murder weapon in the The tree house. And she set fire to the previous family that adopted her, more than one or two to be exact."

Kate's coffee spilled out, and her hands trembled slightly, but she tried to keep calm, "Maybe you were the ones who killed Sister Abigail. Listen, children, that's not why I kindly asked you to stay overnight, This is a false accusation and I will report it to the police."

"I don't think I need to say more." Max lay back and made a helpless gesture to Max, "Whether Esther deliberately asked Max to seek help from me or her own will , I can only say that I am just a passing outsider. You kindly took us in for the night and I would be happy to stay and help you, but the premise is that you can be honest with each other."

Max has been speaking very bluntly, and Barry feels that this will offend people. He added, "We can go to Esther's room first, Mrs. Coleman, I am very worried about your current situation."

Kate looked upstairs, hesitated, this is not a good omen, did she believe the words of the two strangers?Perhaps faintly shaken, she said that it was impossible not to doubt Esther's various unreasonable behaviors.Almost resigned to fate, she got up and said, "Let's go."

Max pouted, and followed Barry upstairs.Kate wanted to leave Max outside the door, but this time Max, who was obedient and obedient, was unwilling to cooperate, so Kate took her in afterwards.Esther's room is very clean, the paint brushes are neatly arranged, and there is almost nothing suspicious except for the somewhat strange bright oil painting.

Kate looked at Barry, here Max let go of Kate's hand and closed the heavy gray curtains, but the whole room was not completely dark, those distorted paintings and unbearable words that radiated fluorescent light in the dark made Kate feel uncomfortable. Keep going back.

"God! What kind of demon have I adopted!"

Kate covered her face, a little broken.Esther wants to monopolize John and kill her and her children, has she brought home a horrible murderer without knowing anything?God!Kate was afraid for a while, and the fear made her hug Max tightly.She thought about the little girl who had somehow broken her arm while playing on a slide, and what Barry had said about Abigail's death, including the last time Max had nearly died in the car alone.She absolutely couldn't let Esther stay any longer.

"What are you going to do?" Barry asked with a frown, and pulled Max back who was looking at the wall with a strange expression.He whispered to Max, "This is not appropriate."

"Is it appropriate to wait until I wake up?" Max turned his head and muttered, "You must know that waiting for a dance is too long, sister is a person who enjoys pleasure in time."

"Max." Barry looked at her disapprovingly, and when he changed his gaze, he suddenly noticed smoke rising from the woods outside the window, "Mrs. Coleman! That's the direction of the tree house, right? I saw the smoke , There's a fire in there!"

"What?" Kate glanced out of the window and hurriedly prepared to take things downstairs, and Max finally showed a frightened face at this moment.She looked at the vibrating phone on the table and grabbed her mother.It shows that John is calling, and Kate picks up the phone to answer, and she looks very irritable, "What? Esther came back by car? 10 minutes ago?" Although Daniel said that he went out with his classmates, they might be in the tree house play?He had a spare key of his own, and if Esther had come back from town 10 minutes ago, she would have been home by now, but the door didn't open downstairs, so...

"Daniel!"

Kate ran out screaming, and Barry and Max roughly guessed what happened from these few words, "Take the key Barry, go help." Max threw the tree house key to him and patted him on the shoulder, Although Barry was a little confused, he still picked it up, "Run, Barry. Right now, she needs your help."

Run, Barry, run!

She needs help.Help, help people.

Barry, run!

"Mom." Barry's brain was running fast.He thought of the terrified face of a woman, the house, the night, the woman saying to him in a halo of red and yellow, run, Barry, run.She overlapped with many figures, they all said this sentence, why?Why are you in such a hurry?what happened?Barry suddenly felt sad. This emotion was inexplicable and inappropriate. He tried to calm himself down and ran forward according to his instinct.

Max just wanted to tease him, but he didn't expect him to disappear.

Lightning fast.

"I've overlooked something." Max thought for a while and said to himself, "Are you a little liar?" She turned to look at Max, who was also looking at her, and the two looked at each other. Laughing a second later, Max forgot that she couldn't hear him anymore.

"It doesn't matter, I don't know you well." Max shrugged with a lollipop in his mouth. She turned on the lights to make the room brighter, but everyone knows that this is like Caroline's two business degrees. It is meaningless to appear.

The firelight outside the window already made the room bright enough.

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