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“What did you just say?” I tilted ave hi

Terror

“I said that he was hospitalized for drugs in his system It was clear to everyone and their brother that what happened to hi I’m just surprised as hell you didn’t force him to tell you what the hell had happened” He shook his head “I’m honestly ht for sure that you would’ve been a whole lot ain, via Linc”

It felt like a bomb had just exploded in my mind

“He was DRUGGED?!” I screeched, standing up so fast that I knocked the entire coffee table back a whole foot “By that woman in the pictures?”

Steel’s eyes regardedmoments

“Yes”

“Because of Tantor?” I confirmed

He nodded without saying a word this time

“And he knew, all along, that so had happened?” I asked “He knew that he was violated, and he didn’t tell me?”

“From what I understand,” ue”

I had

I’d turned le Alerts off I’d avoided socialthat had to do with Linc Ja was a relative ter that had to do with cheating He hadn’t lied and then allowed me to think that he had

He hadn’t even tried to get me to understand!

He’d let me believe the lie, but why?

“Why did he allow me to believe that?” I asked carefully

I remembered all the times that Pru had looked at o on to social et a tiny glimpse of the man that had broken me into so many tiny little pieces

She’d gone out of her way to help iven up her own social media account!

All the sneaking around on her phone, as well as the covert glances, and having her father talk with my landlord all made a sick sort of sense

She was in on it