Too Old for This

by Samantha Downing

Stop trying to clean up everybody else’s mess, and concentrate on your own.

People say they want the truth, and they believe they want it. But it’s a lie. Nine times out of ten, if you know what’s good for you, the last thing you want is the truth. What you want, what we all want, is the story we believe in. And it’s probably a lie.

It would be nice to live out the rest of my days not caring about Tom or his opinion. Yet that fear stays with me, like something I was born with. Maybe there’s still time to work on it.