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There’s that word. Crazy.
Except Drew’s not calling me crazy.
“What do we do?”
“We? We do nothing. I have to get my team to figure this mess out, all while protecting you.”
“From John, Stellan and Blaine.”
“And your father and mother. And the press.”
“Daddy and Mom? Why? Oh......”
The full implication of his words hits me, hard. I get it. They’ll think I did this to myself.
They’ll think I’m that unhinged.
“I can’t go back to the Island. I can’t.”
“That won’t happen.”
“But—”
“Do you trust me?”
“I—”
The room closes in on me.
His face hardens. Drew’s eyes narrow. In the dark room, he looks menacing.
“Four years ago, I couldn’t stop it.”
“You wouldn’t—”
“Couldn’t. Could not. I could not stop it, Lindsay.”
“But I saw the tapes—”
“You saw what they wanted you to see!” he whisper-shouts. “Just like they want your parents and the media to think you sabotaged your own car and set yourself up for that threatening text, damn it!”
I stop breathing.
The world stops turning.
Everything just...pauses.
And all that exists is Drew.
“Oh, my God.” My stomach flips, a full three hundred and sixty degree spin. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God.” I can’t say anything else. Can’t think anything else. My mind races over and over, my mouth saying it in a chant.
If what Drew is saying is true, then I have spent four years living an even bigger lie than I ever imagined.
“You mean you—I d-d-don’t understand.” My words come out halting, like I stutter. “What do you mean you couldn’t stop them from raping me? From doing that to me.”
He grabs my arms, hard, so hard I want to yell at him to stop. The pain is the only thing holding me in place, though.
“I couldn’t stop them. What you don’t see in that video is the gun one of them is holding to my head. And the gun that the third is holding to yours. Both are off camera.”
