Secrets We Keep by Angel Lawson

Author:Angel Lawson [Lawson, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

24

Finn

Fuck.

Fuck.

Fuck.

I can’t believe I told Kenley all of that. It was a secret I’d kept for years. A secret I should have never told. Only a fucking idiot would willingly offer to get their heart torn out by the girl he’s secretly loved, and publicly treated like crap for years. There’s no doubt I’m an idiot.

I’m also not a creeper, but there’s no way in hell I’m letting her walk back to the car alone. Not with Rose’s disappearance. With everything we’ve uncovered, it’s looking more and more like she’d been hurt or taken. There are too many variables at play.

I follow a few steps behind and stick to the woods as she gets into her car. Once she drives away, I head back to the cottage. The guys are still inside. Ezra raises an eyebrow when I enter.

“She left. I was just making sure she got to the car safely.”

Ozzy nods. “Is she okay?”

“She feels guilty.”

“Join the club,” Ezra mutters, unscrewing the cap on the whiskey and taking a sip. He passes it to me and I swallow a gulp. It burns the hell out of my throat on the way down.

“Jesus.” I shake it off. “Can I see that dating site?”

Ozzy pulls out his phone, opens the app and hands it over.

“Your fake handle is Lolita Love?” I make a face.

“Whatever. I got hit on right away.”

“I bet.” I scroll through, looking it over. The idea is simple. Young girls, presumably eighteen and over, looking for older men for a particular kind of relationship. The situation varies depending on what people want. There are the creeps, who start with dick pics and escalate from there, but that’s not all. Some older guys seem to just want companionship—someone to have dinner with or go to the theater. Others have detailed plans of their expectations, including sex. All of them involve money.

“This whole thing is a clusterfuck,” I say. “I can’t believe Rose was on that site. I knew she had daddy issues—real ones—but to go seeking something like that?”

I’m not even sure where to begin processing how I feel about this. Embarrassed? A little. Inadequate? Sure, especially since we’d stopped fucking months ago, but that was mutual. With all the tension and distance, it felt off. But there’s something else that I feel. Worry and confusion. After all these years, it’s becoming clear that I didn’t know Rose very well at all.

“The thing about Rose,” Ezra says, looking at the page over my shoulder, “is that she had to have a reason to be involved in something like this. She had money. She had you. What was the point? Just for thrills? Was she just bored, like she said? Maybe she left her car on that bridge and her ‘Daddy’ came and picked her up and she left Thistle Cove for good.”

“It’s possible,” Ozzy says. “But, it’s also pretty fucking scandalous. Especially when you have a father in politics. Maybe we aren’t the only ones that found out about this account?”

I grab the bottle again and take another swig.

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