"I know." He said.
"You let me hate people without telling me why." I said.
"I did." He said.
"You watched me spend years trying to understand a lie." I said and his expression was filled with regret.
"I thought protecting you meant hiding it." Vincent said and I laughed bitterly.
"You didn't protect me. You abandoned me inside someone else's version of history." I said and the room stayed completely silent.
Nobody interrupted and nobody defended him. Knox quietly watched me while saying nothing at all and I understood why. This wasn't his fight. Not yet. And eventually I sat back down.
"I don't know who I'm supposed to hate anymore." I said and Vincent answered softly.
"Neither do I." Vincent said.
The honesty hurt more than another lie would have and Knox finally cleared his thr
