Yet Cara’s look, though mostly restrained, still held some doubt.
She didn’t need to say the words for me to understand her meaning.
Are we doing the right thing?
The answer was simple.
Right or not, this was the only way now. We’d walked this path for too long to turn back now. If we were to reveal the truth to Amelia after all this time lying to her, she might hate us forever.
“We are protecting her,” I reminded Cara and myself.
Truly, I hated lying to her, but, as I had told myself time and again throughout these past six years, the lying was the only way to keep her free from Damien and therefore free of the pain of the past.
“I trust you,” Cara said, and it was nice to know at least someone did. “But you cannot change who she fundamentally is. She felt something, and that isn’t
