Page 14 of Sins or Secrets
The question throws me. I am still trying to move past the fact though that he’s talking tome.
“It’s hard. I didn’t know she wassick.”
“I’msorry.”
“Logan, we’re ready to go now,” says a sugary voice from behind him.It’s the woman who was sitting next tohim.She’s giving me that lookagain.That glare that says she’s not exactly impressed that Logan is talking tome.
Logan glances at her then returns his gaze tome.“Try to be strong.” He tips his head for a curt nod and then leavesme.
The woman links her arm with his and the two saunter away arm inarm.
Well, at least I know he foundsomeone.
I hope she treats him better than Idid.
And she never has to lie to save hislife.
Logan
I’ve thought about her all day.
Quinn...
Quinn Cambray.
Like everybody else today at the funeral, I was cautious around her.
Unlike everybody else, though, I had more reasons than one to be cautious.
Most people at the funeral knew her.The minority who didn’t were new to the town and new to Lilly but came to pay their respects like everyone else because Lilly was that kind of woman to touch your life in ways that change you.
When Quinn walked into the church, making her presence known, those who knew her had mixed reactions.
Some looked surprised to see her, others showed their outright revulsion.
I knew if she turned up there were definitely going to be those kinds of people.Especially the ones who’d known Lilly the longest and knew the hell she went through after Quinn and her family left town.
That would have been the reason for the stares of disgust.
The question was, which type of person was I?
It’s in my nature to be an asshole, but even I couldn’t home in on any disgust I might have felt toward her family when I saw how broken Quinn looked.
“You’re miles away again,” Monica says, waving her dainty hand in front of my face.
The perfectly manicured tips of her fingers glisten as she brings her hands together and offers me a warm smile.
“Just thinking of today,” I answer and she nods.
“It was so sad. But just think Lilly isn’t in any pain anymore.”
I know that’s true and the right thing to say, but I don’t want to hear it.
And not from her.
When she says anything like that, it feels fake.Because it is.
She's doing her best to play the girlfriend card, and I'm digging that hole deeper for myself.
