CHAPTER 47
“Listen, I’m sorry.” Ricky had lost track of how many times he’d apologized since he convinced Jillian to talk things through. He got the feeling that she only agreed to sit out here in his pickup with him to avoid a confrontation with Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Shin in the lobby, but it was a start.
He had to make her understand. “I was trying to defend you.”
“By telling them what happened to me? Even after you promised not to?”
He cringed at her onslaught, wondering how a woman who just a minute earlier had looked so helpless and defenseless could be so angry.
“They were talking about you.” Why didn’t she understand? Out of everyone, she should know what people here at Orchard Grove were like. Sometimes the truth is the only thing that would shut up these stupid old gossips.
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