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We r sorry. We regretted losing u all our lives. We love u
We want 2 meet. We will only offer once. Then we will leave u alone. Tomorrow 8 a.m. Mum & Dad
“Are you all right?”Everett asks, worried.
But I’m not.
I’m shaking apart.
“They’re not my mum and dad.” I throw my phone onto the table, unwilling to touch it like the Webbs have contaminated it.
I know that I’m making no sense to the rest of my friends in the room who are watching me alarmed.
I try to bring myself under control. I won’t ruin the evening for them.
Yet my biological parents are saying the words that I have craved to hear from them my entire life.
It’s a siren call.
I clutch my head.
Eden would kill the Webbs if he got hold of them. They would deserve it.
So, why am I desperate to at least meet them?
What the bloody hell should I do?
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Freedom
Shay
“They love me.They’re sorry. But why didn’t they message Dee as well? They hurt him worse. Don’t they also love him?” I mutter, unable to still my thoughts.
I hunch my shoulders against the drizzling rain, pushing my hands deep into the pockets of my leather jacket.
I am pacing up and down the stretch of deserted beach, which fits the address from the text.
In the distance, I can see the hazy outline of the bridge.
The slate sky is low over the crashing waves of the ocean. I scrunch my nose at the salty breeze, which is also scented with wet wood. I glance at the curve of the gray road, where I parked my Harley.
Earlier, I drove here too fast, but I needed to clear my head.
It didn’t help.
I have been in a daze since I received the text last night.
We r sorry. We regretted losing u all our lives. We love u
Love…?
What does that mean to people like the Webbs? To parents who can treat their kids like they did Eden and me?
Who can sell their own blood?
I clench my jaw.
