to hear the truth!”
For several seconds, no one spoke.
The refrigerator hummed in the kitchen.
A car passed outside, its tires whispering over the wet street.
Everything ordinary in the world seemed to continue while the three people I loved most stood in front of me looking as though our lives had just shifted beneath their feet.
I looked at Kevin first.
“What happened?”
He opened his mouth, but Noah suddenly said, “No. I should tell her.”
His voice sounded so small that for one horrible second I imagined
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