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There’s surprise in his voice, as if women are somehow incapable of boldness.
Yes, boys can break your heart and betray you, but not in the same stinging way girls can.
But I stay completely still as Theo steps forward and, shockingly, gives me a hug.
Already in love w him
Every woman is crazy. The ones who can’t hide it well enough are shit out of luck.
“I’m flattered, Emma. I really am. But—”
IM IN LOVE WITH HIM. Makes me feel like im 13 again
“Because, at the time, I didn’t think it was.” Theo pauses, rubbing the salt-and-pepper stubble on his chin until he can summon the right words. “But I was flattered. And I want you to know that, had you been older, I probably would have kissed you back.”
Butterfly in my stomach
I’m thirteen and smitten, and every glimpse of him makes my heart explode into a flock of butterflies.
“You can’t blame that mother falcon,” Franny says matter-of-factly. “She was simply doing what she needed to do. Taking care of her children.
I’m certain that he’d say he regrets watching them closely. I think he’d say that he wished he hadn’t looked so much.”
Two more tears follow the designated path. I wipe them away with the back of my hand.
She is confessing to teenagers she met 4 days ago?
“That age difference didn’t seem like such a big deal. Besides, it wasn’t illegal. I got three daughters of my own now. So I know damn well what the statutory rape laws are.”
Beurk
And I see Theo. Swimming next to me. Arm still around my waist.
My man
“Hi, I’m Emma.” Theo at last acknowledges my presence with a turn of his head. Shaking my hand, he replies, “I’m Theo. Nice to meet you.”
“What about Vivian?” you ask. “That’s a very good question,” Flynn says. He tells you that none of the bones are a match. He tells you that both Natalie’s and Allison’s skulls were fractured in a way that suggests they were struck in the head, possibly with a shovel found near the bones.
Shut upppp
Not us. Meaning that she was alone.
“One: Allison and Natalie were with my sister the night she died,” she says. “They dared her to go out on that ice. They saw her fall in and drown. Yet they told no one.
SHUT UPPPP
