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“Yeah,” I whisper.
“She claimed she canceled your cards to help you,” he says after a minute. “In her mind, maybe she actually thinks that. Who the fuck knows with her?”
“She was right.”
He grunts.
“She was,” I say softly.
“She wasn’t right about the tuition. She said you lied about that.”
“I did not!” I gasp.
“I know.”
“I don’t understand her. What did I ever do to her to make her hate me so much?” I scowl at the water, genuinely perplexed. “I’ve never been anything less than nice to her.”
“You exist, songbird,” he says, rubbing my back. “That’s enough for her.”
I crane my head back to look at him, surprised by the venom in his voice. “You don’t like her, do you?”
“Nope,” he says without hesitation.
“Why not?”
“She hurt you.”
He’s not lying, but he’s not telling me the whole truth either. It’s another secret. I see it in his eyes. The silent acknowledgment that this goes deeper, that there are entire volumes he isn’t saying. That I’m missing entire chapters of subtext. That worries me.
What is he hiding?
What does he know?
More importantly…what does Marnie have to do with my dad’s death? Because for the first time, I’m suddenly sure that she’s involved. And I think Rhys knows it too.
