“Oh. I’m sor—”
“Why were you there?”
Sam drops her gaze. “I was hoping to speak to someone about my mom and saw your car out front.”
“What the fuck is going on?” My voice shatters the air between us. “What was that picture? Why are our parents in it? Why did it trigger her?” My last question comes out choked.
“I don’t know.”
“You know something,” I snap.
“Gracie and I were just investigating,” she blurts.
My ears perk up at that. “What?”
Her eyes flick to mine. “I wasn’t looking for it. I just found it.”
“Then what were you looking for?”
“Why I’m here. I had questions about my scholarship, but every person I asked was cagey about it. So I asked Alex—”
“Alex? What’s he know about this?”
“Nothing. I’m just as lost as you. But something wasn’t adding up, so I asked Alex to help me look into it. His father seemed tobe hiding something about how I got in this school, and I knew he could help me.”
She had questions and went to him?
“Help you with what?”
“Information. We snuck into the administration building and while I was looking for my records, I learned that my mother was a student here.”
“Well, what did your mother say?”
She stays silent, and a lone tear trails her cheek.
“She can’t say anything from the grave.”
My heart pulses. “Shit. I didn’t know.”
“How could you when you’ve been treating me like the enemy instead of a friend?”
Fuck.She’s right. I’ve spent so much time trying to keep her from knowing the truth about my mom that I didn’t care to inquire about hers.
“Sorry.”
She peers at me, and without thinking, I reach out and wipe her tears away with the pad of my thumb. Sam palms my hand, locking eyes with me.
“Me too,” she mutters.
I want to break the connection, put distance between us again, but I can’t. Last night should have gotten her out of my system, but it’s only made it worse. I believe her. She’s just as lost in all of this as I am, and whatever it is has something to do with not just my mom and hers, but all of ours.
“Tell me everything. What have you found?”
CHAPTER THIRTY
SAM
Agreeing to meet Mountain at the house he shares with Alex and Kane is probably a bad idea. Because being in the same house,alone, with the three guys I clearly have complicated relationships with can’t lead to anything good.
