Avalon High
““That’s impossible,” Will said flatly.“Will.”I felt miserable. I’d come crashing down from the high his kisses had sent me to. It was almost as if they’d never happened. Had I dreamed them? Everything that had gone on in the past hour seemed like a dream, from the storm to…well, this.“It’s not impossible,” I said. “Your father’s gun case was broken into, and Marco is still missing. I know you didn’t take it. Who else could have?”“Oh, I believe Marco took the gun,” Will said. “But kill me? Jean—I mean, Mom—is overreacting a little. Marco’s not a killer.”This was exactly what I had said to Mr. Morton. Before I’d found out the rest.“Um,” I said. “Will. This may be a little more complicated than you think.”“More complicated than my real mother giving birth to me while her husband was overseas, and giving me to the man who’d actually fathered me to raise, so her husband wouldn’t find out she’d been unfaithful? More complicated than having been told my whole life that my mother was dead, un...til today, when I was told she’s actually the woman my father married after rising high enough through the ranks to be able to send his best friend—her husband—to his death?”MoreLess
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