Franz’s pov
My blood turned to ice in my veins as those words slipped out of Ben’s mouth.
Her parents are on Clayton’s side.
Horror, rage, and disgust were flooding my brain as I asked myself over and over again how the f**k was something like that even possible.
How was it possible that they had sided with their daughter’s abuser? How could they, the people that were supposed to know her better than anyone else, believe that monster? They should have known, like Ben, that Emily was not a damsel in distress. They should have guessed that something in Clayton’s little tale didn’t seem quite right.
Still, we were talking about two parents who didn’t realize their own child was being physically, emotionally, and mentally abused for four f*****g years. It wasn’t like we could expec
