Chapter 129

“Sex? You want to know if we have sex?” I laugh manically, sounding deranged. “Yes Mom…we do…. More than once….. anytime we’re alone, anytime we’re together…for months now. Many, many months…. Does that make you sick? Does that hurt you? Does that make you regret the lies and deceit…the fucking dishonesty?” I yell it, letting out the anguish and hurt from what they’re doing to us, lurching forward to drive it home with unconcealed anguish and tears.

I’ve never wanted to inflict wounds on my mother, not even back then, but right now, I cannot contain the venom in my blood or the need to wipe that look off her face.

She did all of this.

Dane catches me, pulling me back into his arms to turn me and hug me in, to control the crazy unraveling in me. Squeezing me in, holding me tight to reign in my hysteria.

“Once or dozens of times, what difference does it make?…. We have slept together. The damage is done.” He sounds calmer than me, although an icy tone and a stif