time since I had known him, Ryan looked genuinely ashamed of the person he once had been.

“I was a kid,” he said. “But that’s not an excuse.”

Silence settled between us.

Then I asked the question I already knew the answer to.

“Was she telling the truth?”

Ryan closed his eyes.

“Yes.”

The word barely escaped his lips, yet somehow it carried twelve years of continue reading …

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