"Mommy," Maddy said, reaching for her mother's hand. She hadn't called her mother that since she was about 12, but she couldn't bring herself to care. "I...I was dropping off job applications, and there was this girl, and she-she was crazy, she tied me to a meat hook. I woke up with numb arms and hands."
She swallowed hard, trying to keep herself from crying. "She-if I tell you this next part, you have to promise not to think I'm crazy."