A Daughter's Place (Family Matters, Book 1) by C J Carmichael

Author:C J Carmichael [Carmichael, C J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Libby wasn't surprised that Gibson had figured out the truth. But now she was trapped. Physically and otherwise. Her back to the wall, Gibson in front of her, holding her hands, pinning her down with his eyes as well as his words. She wanted to flee and hide so she wouldn't have to lie. But there was nowhere to go.

At last she had to look at him. “I never said I ran off with Owen,” she pointed out “That was just what everyone assumed. I let people believe what they wanted to.”

“You don’t buy that excuse any more than I do,” he said bluntly.

She couldn’t meet his gaze without admitting he was right. “I know. I should have set things straight from the beginning. But it was hard. The worst thing about coming back to Chatsworth was having to face people who would want explanations about where I had been, who Nicole’s father was, all that. When you told me Owen’s family had left town, it seemed like a heaven-sent opportunity.”

“And of course the truth would never have done.”

She hated the hard edge to his voice. He was judging her again, before he’d heard her side of the story. Just the way he’d assumed leaving her father had been her choice.

“I’d like to hear the truth, Libby. Don’t you think you could trust me with it?”

Easy for him to say. There was nothing in his past that could hurt Allie, so he couldn’t possibly understand Libby's situation. Nicole was the one who would suffer if the truth about Darren ever came out, and Nicole was the one she had to protect. “I can't, Gibson. I'd like to, but I just can't.”

He let go of her hands then, obviously hurt and angered by her answer. Libby felt an agonizing pain, like barbed wire ripping across her heart, at the way he shuttered his eyes and his feelings against her.

If only he could know what it was like to have a secret so terrible it couldn’t be told.

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