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“He’s really insistent, isn’t he?” she asks, slowly opening my door. I roll onto the ground and stare up at her.
“He’s my security detail.”
“Yeah, but he doesn’t have to be an asshole about it.”
“I heard that!” Drew calls through the door.
“Good!” Jane and I shout back in unison.
“I shouldn’t be mean to him,” I say, standing slowly. “He did get rid of Mandy for me.”
“Yeah.” Jane thinks for a minute. “But he hates her guts, too. So I think he got plenty of personal satisfaction out of that one.”
“Why does he hate her?” I wash my hands in the sink as Jane leans against the wall and talks.
“Why do you think? For what she did to you.”
“Why would Drew care?”
“Because he—ooooooohhhhhhh.” Jane’s voice winds down like a toy running out of batteries. “Shit. Was he really the fourth guy in the video?” I can tell she doesn’t want to believe it. I can’t blame her. I don’t want to believe it.
I’ve spent four years wishing it weren’t true.
Chapter 20
“Yeah. He was.” I’ve never, ever admitted that to anyone. Not Stacia. Not the secondary therapists. Not Daddy or Mom or...anyone.
“Fuck,” she says under her breath.
“Right.”
“So he just sat there on the couch and did...nothing?”
Jane gets it. Instantly.
“Right.”
“That doesn’t make sense.”
“I know.”
“No, Lindsay. It really really makes no sense. Drew loved you so much.”
I can’t have this conversation. Not now. Not here.
Maybe not ever.
This was a huge mistake.
“Lindsay, after you...after the attack, Drew was hospitalized, too.”
I feel like my body is too big and too small at the same time.
“What?”
“You probably had no idea. No one knows exactly what happened, because he was in the hospital and then suddenly he was shipped overseas for his first tour in Afghanistan.”
“His first tour?”
