CHAPTER 21 - REED
WAS I FINALLY about to find out the truth?
“First, you need to understand that I didn’t take keeping her secret lightly,” Wyatt said. “But that thing with your father hit her harder than she ever admitted to you. Even ten years on, she still cried herself to sleep while she pretended everything was fine on the surface. That was why she started taking the drugs—as an escape.”
“Why didn’t she just talk to me?”
“Because she didn’t want you to think she was weak.”
“But she talked to you?”
“Yeah, she did. Whether you like it or not, Emma was my girl. In my head, she always will be.”
His voice hitched, and just for a second, I remembered the old Wyatt and Emma. Happy, laughing, thick as thieves. Then I pushed that image out of my mind because he’d betrayed both of us.
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