ZOLA'S P.O.V
I left the room without another word. How dare they invade our privacy like that? It wasn't just Tegan, but my own Mother. If the tables were reversed, would they have taken this information lightly?
"It was meant as a form of protection, Zo." My mother's soft voice said.
"For whom?" I asked angrily.
"For both of you."
"No, what it feels like, is selfishness."
"No, baby. There was so much more neither of you were going to understand."
"Why not tell us when we are old enough then?"
"There was just never the right timing. As more years passed, the more it felt irrelevant."
"Are you kidding me?!" I exclaimed.
How could they think that Josiah would never come back? This was something we could have been prepared for. Instead, we are just finding all
