Page 100 of Hearts and Hidden Secrets

CARSON

My sister got married.

I was there.

I didn’t remember it.

I’ve been told I gave a great speech.

I’ve been told I laughed. I smiled.

I danced.

I remembered none of it.

I wasn’t there.

I was back at that night, that bittersweet night.

I was always back at that night.

They never knew what had happened to me the weekend before they got married. No one did. Not my parents. None of my relatives. None of my old high school friends I reunited with after the bittersweet night.

My sister went on her honeymoon.

I went back to Texas, but Tanner had told me about Milo and explained the connection. It was the nicest he’d ever been to me.

I learned Benjamin had also been killed.

The local detectives questioned me, considered it odd that I was out of town when they both died.

I didn’t know what to tell them. I had been out of town.

I turned in my resignation after I was done talking to the detectives.

Considering the circumstances, it was effective immediately.

What was next, I didn’t know.

I was always back there, with him, that same bittersweet night.

I didn’t think I would ever leave.

I went to where she was buried.

I visited her grave.

I laid flowers there.

I told her I was sorry about what happened to her.

I told her I’d fallen in love with him, too.

I told her he was trying to do what was right for me, because he hadn’t with her.

And I asked her if she would’ve wanted that, if she had a choice.

She didn’t answer.