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“She would have told me. It’s been years.”
“We’re so sorry, Rose,” Harley whispers.
“Whoever told you, they’re lying.”
She wouldn’t do this. Sandbox to casket.
“A couple of friends heard the guy’s wife saying things after a few drinks. She didn’t know who it was, but the stuff they overheard… they said it had to be Casey,” Brett says.
“She admitted it all when we saw her yesterday. She even seemed…” Harley sighs. “I don’t know… like it was a relief to finally come clean.”
“I haven’t spoken to her… I …” My vision blurs, my heart racing.
She didn’t. She couldn’t have.
“She would have told me!” I cry. “She’s my best friend. She would have told me.”
There’s no way she could have been seeing someone, especially a married man, and be keeping it a secret from me. We tell each other everything. And I would have noticed, I mean…
But Gareth and I were going through that rough period. It lasted months. Moving in together, and the… the sex… I thought at the time it would all help. That we just needed to show each other how committed we were. That it was a dip that would pass.
I was distracted. I didn’t see Casey as much… but I was still there. She couldn’t have hidden this from me. She wouldn’t.
“You’re liars!” I shout down the phone. “You’re talking about Casey like she would do that to me. She wouldn’t. She’s been there for me forever, every time I’ve needed her.”
“Exactly,” Harley says gently. “Exactly, Rose. How could she have told you after she knew what he did? What he did to Brett? To our family? To you?”
“She wouldn’t do it.”
I hold my free hand out in front of me. It’s shaking. I suck in a breath through my nose and hold it still. But it trembles again in a split second, then turns into a full shake once more.
“Sorry, Sis. We didn’t want to be the ones to tell you. She said she was going to,” Brett says.
“But we could tell by the way you sounded when you called that she hadn’t.” Harley’s voice is full of concern, and I can just picture her looking over at Brett with wide, worried eyes. The two of them feeling sorry for me again. Poor fucked up little sister. Never being able to move past that day that cost us all so much.
The day that was my fault… only... was it?
If Casey was … No! She couldn’t be. But if she was? Then…
I have to know.
“I’ve got to go.” I hang up before Harley and Brett can say anything else, and immediately dial Casey’s number.
It doesn’t even complete a full ring before she answers.
“Rose, I was about to call you, I was—”
“Is it true?” I scream, my voice breaking.
“I—”
“Don’t lie to me. Don’t lie to me again!” I screw my eyes up so hard they sting as colored spots pulsate behind my eyelids.
“I was going to tell you. I just didn’t know how. I’m so sorry.” Casey breaks down sobbing.
I fold forward over the desk as the air leaves my lungs in one sudden whoosh, like I’ve been punched in the gut.
Casey continues sobbing. “I’m sorry, Ro. Please… I’m so sorry…”
