EDEN'S POV
The word hits harder than any accusation ever could and for several seconds I simply stare at Janice because my brain refuses to move fast enough to catch up with what she just said, while the city lights glow beyond the hospital windows and every missing piece I've been carrying for weeks suddenly begins moving toward the same terrifying answer.
Janice looks away first and the movement has nothing to do with hiding anymore because she simply looks exhausted, the kind of exhausted that comes from carrying the same secret for years. "I found out after I left... not immediately, just a few weeks later."
My throat suddenly feels dry and when the words finally leave my mouth they barely sound like my own. "A few weeks."
She nods slowly.
Neither of us speaks for a moment because
