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“Wait,” Dad barks “Slow the hell down, Theo How in the fuck do your mother and I not know this?”

Shaoing to tell you all before we left You kno things are around here, Dad I didn’t want Jules part of that I didn’t want that staining her life”

“So, just fuck your family? What in the hell do you think that would have done to your mom?”

“I wouldn’t have been able to give her everything she deserved if we stayed here” Theo says quietly He turns towary “She’s really awake?”

I jerk my head in an affirmative

“Did she… uh…,” he starts nervously, looking fearful all of a sudden “Did she say anything?”

“Yes”

His Adam’s apple bobs as he ss “What’d she say?”

“No” He takes a step back, ju when he hits the chair behind him I take a step forward “When she sawscared out of her mind Tell me, Theo” I move closer to him and tilt my head as he moves back another step “If she has no idea who I aht I was you Why in the hell was she scared of a face that you and I share?”

He stops, and the scared look on his facesinister Lines appear beside his eyes as he glowers at me His lips forer stops e

“She does know you,” he says ly

I rock back on my heel “What?”

It’s now hi toward me “It was you” He spews the last word

“Make fucking sense, Theo,” I grind out

His lip curls with a sneer