“No, Cindy doesn’t want that. She doesn’t want our mess, hers and mine, to spill over into everyone’s lives.”
ourMonie slams her fists down on the bed and jolts forward again, eyes blazing. “More secrets covered by more lies!”
My heart pounds in my ears and I feel my muscles tighten. “What do you mean? I’m not lying!”
“Not to me, you aren’t, but to your son, you will be,” she says, waving her hand in dismissal.
I frown. I’m confused. What the hell is she talking about? “What?”
What the hell is she talking about?“It’s a lie of omission,” she snaps back, glaring at me.“ Just as bad.”
“What do you want me to do? Go against her wishes? She doesn’t want him to know, okay?”
Monie averts her withering gaze, and I find myself on the edge of a cliff, grasping for anything to say, anything to
