Luna and the Lie

by Mariana Zapata

“We both thought it was a bad idea if we told you about the calls.” They had both been keeping it from me. Both of them. That’s what she was trying to hint. Two of my sisters had been hiding this from me. I must have sucked in a breath or something because Kyra made a sound that sounded strangely like a gulp. “Oh, Luna. I promised her I wouldn’t say anything about her job. But about Dad… Don’t be mad. It’s no big deal. He calls her sometimes and they talk. I’ve talked to him a couple of times—” What? And I stopped listening. I stopped listening because my ears were buzzing, and genuine freaking fury and hurt like I didn’t think I was capable of feeling filled my chest. Kyra said something about how it had been going on for only a year or two. She said something else about how they both loved me and how it had nothing to do with me. Told me not to worry about whatever it was that Thea was doing for work that even our dad disapproved of.

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