Nathan
The weight of my family’s secret still burned through me like a fire that had refused to be quenched by an ocean.
The last time I’d somehow summoned the courage to bare myself open to Jake, to tell him all the secrets surrounding his family’s demise, something had interrupted.
At first, I thought it was a text from that devilish bastard.
Daniel.
But no, it wasn’t. It had been from one of Jake’s friends at school. Something about a project they had to do together and to prove to me that he wasn’t sneaking around anymore, he’d asked me to drive him there.
“Don’t forget dinner, tomorrow.” I’d whispered in his neck, before kissing his forehead and sending him off into his friend’s apartment.
He didn’t come home that night, but he kept me updated on what he did.
And I was
