CHAPTER 121

CARMEN

He knew. He knew what my mother had done to his father, and he knew that I had knowledge about it the whole time but had been hiding it from him.

“Dave, I know you’re disappointed. I didn’t want you to freak out over it—”

“Freak out?” I heard him scoff. “What did you think would make me freak out, Carmen? The fact that your mother has been trying to kill my father or the fact that the one person in that house that I trusted enough to tell me things did not see this as something to tell me.”

“That’s not what’s happening at all,” I denied with a shake of my head. “Of course I wanted you to know about it. I wanted you to know everything, but there was already so much going on. You were overly stressed, and telling you about it would bring nothing but more stress—”

“And now? Does finding out about it now and in this manner make it any better?” he questioned, and I was filled with the sudden urge to ask him how he had found out about it.

“If you knew that I was going to find out abo