CHAPTER 52

Valerie's POV

Fred and Brenda are the only ones who know that I am a virgin. No one else knows. Not even my mother.

Because of the wild parties Brenda and I go to and the fact that I had a boyfriend, she must have assumed that I have lost my virginity.

She never asked me but I know that is what she thinks. She is my mother yet she doesn't know a lot about me.

If only Mother knows, I will think she told Ryan this behind my back but Mother doesn't know so who did?

"You can't have sex with someone you don't love but you never had sex with Fred and you two have been together for years. Don't you love him?"

"Ho..w..how did you know that?" I find myself stammering as I ask him with intense curiosity.

"How I know doesn't matter, does it?"

"It does", I retort back, desperate for him to answer me.

Silence ensues, except for the loud beating of my heart which I can hear. I continue to watch him, anticipating the answer to the question I asked him.

"I will answer you", he drops his hand from hi