Chapter 146

After explaining and coming clean to the detective, I felt much lighter. It felt strangely good to be telling the truth, and not just half of it, but the whole thing.

“That’s all?” She asked as she lifted her attention from what she just wrote in her notepad. 

I nodded, and then mumbled, “Yea, I guess so.”

“I don’t want any guessing. Is that everything? I want the whole truth.” 

“Yes. Yes, that is everything.” I pressed my lips into a line. I was still very nervous but as I said, I felt lighter. I was not choked by my nerves anymore, I just had a pinch of them clinging to me. “What is going to happen to me?”

She smiled lopsidedly and placed the notepad down. “All this would have been dissolved and dealt with without any serious repercussions if you and the kid would have come forward the moment it all happened.”

“Didn’t you hear me? We were scared.” 

“Yeah, but the thing that you two were scared of has now happened. You two ju