Thirty-Two
Karrie
I was shaking.
I’d never witnessed anything like what had just transpired between Ridge and his mom. My heart was breaking for him, and I was filled with such anger at not only what I’d seen, but what I’d heard.
Ridge’s father had abused him … and his mother knew about it and didn’t stop it?
It was such a complete difference from the way I’d been raised, that it almost didn’t compute. My heart wanted to deny such a thing was possible, even though I’d just seen it with my own eyes.
First, I’d been devastated that he’d lied about my family, but the more they spoke to each other, the more I realized none of this had anything to do with me, not really. When he’d asked me to come here with him to be a sort of buffer and stop his mother from setting him up with some debut
