Someone Else's Secret

by Julia Spiro

There was a part of him that must believe it, then, if he’d said it. Was it ever possible to say or do something that at least some part of you didn’t believe?

Lindsey thought that she might have written off men entirely if it wasn’t for her dad proving to her that decent, honest men did exist.

Why was it, she thought, that being a victim of a crime could morph into feeling like the perpetrator of a crime just because she hadn’t wanted to tell anyone about it?