Adrian
"Why didn't you tell me who she was?" I paced a tight circle in the hotel room Derby had secured for me, hands clenched into fists as the truth about Lily's identity gnawed at my insides. All the guilt... I took in the heaviest of breaths, but it was not enough to loosen the tight chords that had wound themselves around my heart from the moment I'd been hit with the memories of my past.
Why the hell had she never said anything? All those years I'd thought she was someone else, treated her as the greedy gold digger out to destroy my life...my coldness towards her, the tears I had caused... God, I should have known, recognized her, even if that required stripping myself of the faux peace I'd built around my life. The one that had kept me sane enough to keep living after that storm
