I heard Abel enter the room before I felt his arms around me. “What is it? Do you want to go be with JJ?”
“No,” I assure him. “There’s just something I never told you about because it’s difficult. I’ve never admitted it out loud, JJ just understood. The picture of me he took, I understand why he sent it today. It’s to remind me of an offer he made last year when things at home weren’t all sunshine and rainbows.”
“What was his offer?”
“To run away and hide out from my family in Golden Light. He was going to help me disappear because things at home…” I pause and look at Abel. “Do you remember how I told you about what happened when Max died?”
“Your mom fell into a deep depression, and your dad sent you to live with Zach while he took care of your mom,” Abel recalled. “That you believed t
