"Are you dumb?" I interrupted, finally snapping. "They're figuring it out anyway!"
"No, I made sure to cover our tracks," Dad argued. "Colleen will never step out of line. She's too afraid. You would never endanger our family like that. We're still your parents."
I started out chuckling, but then it turned into a full-blown laugh. I sounded like I had lost my mind, and I think I really might have. I mean... this was all a lot to take in.
All these years I spent hating myself and thinking Otti would hate me... All these fu.cking lies and secrets... All for what? For an even bigger shark to come in and take us all out?
The irony isn't lost on me. Once the Akselsens find out what we did, I'm just as fu.cked as my parents. They won't care that I was forced or that Otti loves me. I was invo
