Page 60 of Always Mine

Tabitha sighed.“I find this unacceptable.I consider myself the reason you two are together.I knew Anthony loved you even when you didn’t believe me.”

Daisy looked toward her friend.“Anthony and I have been together since we were sixteen years old.”That was when she had killed her father.

“What?But you didn’t date until much later,” Tabitha said.

“We’d been dating, but we hadn’t gone on an official date.Neither of us wanted to.We kind of liked it just the two of us, but we knew you wouldn’t ...stop.”

Tabitha’s mouth opened and closed.“Why didn’t you say anything?”

“Well, you had Simon and the distance thing.Not to mention Lexie’s cancer diagnosis and everything since then.There was never a good time to tell you.We’ve also been living together for quite some time.”There was no reason to lie.

Miles chuckled.“I should have known you and him were a couple.He was never into any of the chicks throughout high school.It was always you, and then he just seemed different, and that was because you guys were together.Damn, you two are good.”

“It wasn’t even meant to be a secret.Honestly, it just kind of happened that way.”She shrugged and then winced.Leaning back on the bed, she dropped her hands down.

“Is there anything else I should know?”Tabitha asked.“Do you have any children?”

“No, we don’t have kids.”They had a pregnancy scare, but that turned out to be nothing, and she wasn’t going to tell them about that.

“Wow,” Tabitha said.“You and Anthony ...your love story is even better than mine and Simon’s.”

“I’m not competing.”

“I know,” Tabitha said with a laugh.

It was good to tell them the truth.

Within thirty minutes, Lacey and Whizz arrived.

Her mother came to her, wrapping her arms around her, and as she did so, Daisy knew she was trying to be careful.Whizz was next, pulling her into his arms and kissing her on top of the head.

“You fucking scared me.Don’t you ever go pulling a stunt like that again.Do you hear me?”

She heard them all loud and clear.

Daisy had gotten a bad feeling about that night.She didn’t even know why, but it had felt wrong.Maybe it was because everything went right.

No one felt any guilt about what they were doing.This was for what happened to Tabitha in high school, this was for all of them.It was payback but done right.

She had known something was wrong.The first two guys she had recognized were not the regular guards she had seen patrolling the clubhouse.Still, she hadn’t said anything.

They had all been ready.

She was shocked that even Constance, Blaise, John, and Damien were happy to kill as well.They all had a score to settle.It shouldn’t have been so easy for them.

The moment they got inside, that had changed.Pulling out of her memory, she looked between her mother and father, and she was just so happy to be alive.

“Thank you,” she said, talking to both of them.

She didn’t know if she had ever thanked them for taking her in, adopting her, and looking after her.For being there for her when she needed it.

“Oh, honey, you don’t need to thank us, not at all,” Lacey said, putting an arm around her and pulling her in close.“We love you.You know this.We will always love you.”

She loved her parents so much.

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Rachel walked intothe room and Daisy sat up in bed.Rachel immediately went to her.Tabitha and Miles had come out so that Rachel, Constance, and Blaise could come see her.

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