Raine's POV
This was one defining moment in my life. I had never admitted what I just admitted to Desmond to any other person, and I swore never to. I was ashamed of it. Who wouldn't be? I put on the perfect facade for so long that I almost forgot that I was in fact, not a good person by any means.
I waited for Desmond's response, my heart in my throat, my fists tightly curled around my dress under the sheets as I waited for him to say anything. He would probably want nothing to do with me now, but it's better than his silence.
My mind went to that day and my mother's reaction when she found out.
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'You killed a boy,' mom whispered to me after she managed to sneak me back inside, her voice accusing. 'You killed someone, Lorraine.'
'It was a mistake,' seventeen year old me cried,
