The Darkest Secrets by Heather Wynter

The Darkest Secrets by Heather Wynter

Author:Heather Wynter [Wynter, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Willowlake Media
Published: 2020-04-13T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty-Two

Emma took several deep breaths after Trent and Amelia left. Then took several more. She kept breathing in and out just like she’d been taught, yet she couldn’t seem to shake off this horrible anxiety, these awful flashbacks, and she needed to. She had plans today that she needed to be happy for. Or at least appear to be. Appearances are everything—her parents had taught her that.

Bringing up Anna had triggered her, though. Their memories played out all over her house. Bordering on that edge between reality and something…else. Emma relived the childhood memories, experimenting with makeup for the first time together, riding horses, gardening, sharing secrets they thought were so scandalous, admitting to each other how difficult it was to live with their parents, how heavy the pressure to be perfect weighed upon them. They vowed life would be different when they were older. They’d buy a house together, work on their passions, and they’d never be in the public eye again.

Anna told her about her mother and how cold she was, how the drugs were the only thing she loved. That white powder the only thing that brought life to her eyes.

Emma told Anna about her father and some of the terrible things he did. She was the only one she’d told at the time and ever since. Her first heartbreak. Her first betrayal.

Why had Anna stopped talking to her like that? Out of nowhere. Like their friendship never existed in the first place. It was something she still didn’t have the answers for, though she desperately needed them. She wished with all her heart that Anna had talked to her before she was killed. That somehow the two could’ve patched up their friendship. Emma was sure nothing bad would’ve ever happened to Anna if only they had remained friends.

But today was Makayla’s day, and she had been a much better friend to Emma than Anna ever was. Sure, she couldn’t tell her quite as much. They were never quite as close, but that made it better. Makayla could never hurt her like Anna did. She was safer. Emma loved her for that.

She tidied herself up and put on a bit of extra makeup to distract from the worry in her eyes. She faked a smile in the mirror; it looked real enough. Then she said goodbye to Dove and got in her car. Though the wedding was months away, Makayla wanted to try on wedding dresses, and Emma was going to be as peppy as she could be throughout that entire process.

It was too quiet in the car, so she turned on the radio. A country song assaulted her, but she couldn’t turn it off. That’s what really did her in. That country song brought a whole new set of memories flooding back.

She was nineteen, waiting tables because she was determined to make her own way in the world. She’d had a falling out with her father and left home. Though she felt bad for her mother, it was something she had to do and was proud of.



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