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“Why didn’t you tell me before? I would’ve helped you out sooner.”
“No one can help me,” I whispered more to myself. “Everyone in this town can be paid off.” I rubbed a hand over my face. “I’m so fucking terrified that he’s going to hurt Allie. I don’t let her ever be alone with him. I get him pissed off before she can, so he hits me and not her.”
“Allie’s mother?” Coach asked after a few moments of silence. “Does he abuse her too?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know.”
Allie’s mother seemed happy, but I tried hard enough to seem happy too. I could hide the pain, the hurt, the fucking fear. I had done it for the past two years without a problem, so Dad wouldn’t put me in boarding school or throw me in jail just because he felt like it again.
“There’s more, isn’t there, son?”
I stared down at the floor and lied because part of me didn’t think he’d believe me either. He might’ve believed the abuse, but he wouldn’t believe that Dad could …
I swallowed hard and pressed my lips together. “No, there isn’t any more.”
