-Wylder-
A secret…
She wanted to know a secret of mine, but I was not sure what to say. I wasn’t a person who shared much. Really, I had had very few people to share anything with. Even as a child, I had been a bit of a loner. I was just not that good at making friends. Zeke had never really let my cold behavior change anything. Maybe I would have turned out differently hadn’t my parents been killed, but I also knew even when they were alive I had been quite quiet. It had changed as I got older and my uncle taught me not to be so scared to speak, but I had been. It had scared me to speak.
“The first few years of my life, everyone thought I was mute.”
Helena looked at me shocked and sat up, coming closer to me.
“What?”
“Yeah, I didn’t speak,” I told her.
“Why?”
“I am not sure. I jus
