“If you mean what you’re saying… then you need to tell him about Jo.”
And there it is. The thing I need to hear, but don’t want to face. The big secret sitting between Isaakand me. The truth that I want to protect at all costs.
I don’t need Bree to say it to know what I have to do. But it helps all the same.
“You need to tell him about Jo, Cami,” Bree repeats when she gets no response from me.
I take a deep breath. “I know.”
The line crackles for a second before it clears out. Sometimes, the connection gets a little gravelly incertain rooms in the castle.
“How’d it go?” he asks.
“It went… better than I thought.” Although I’m talking more about everything that followed Lachlan’sfuneral than the funeral itself.
“You told his parents that they’d still receive his salary?”
“They refus
