Ella POV "David cannot be allowed to continue making these slanderous statements," my father said angrily. "I agree," my mother added, "but we have to handle this carefully." "I'm beginning to think we've handled it too carefully," my father replied, his anger evident. I felt a pang of guilt. By opening up to him about my plan to expose David and Amanda's affair, I had placed him in a difficult position. He knew now that all of the fallout with David was caused by my decision to expose him publicly. In a way, this was all my fault, and my father knew it. I didn’t know if he had told my mother about it or not, and I was afraid to ask. Her opinion of me might change if she knew I had been keeping such important secrets from them. "I don’t see that there’s anything

