Chapter 66: CASSIE

I can imagine why he didn't show up to get me, but of course I couldn't say anything to Sian about it. I can't say anything to anyone.

I braced myself before entering the house. I know mom would be expecting him to come back with me, and I was running out of excuses to give her each time he pulled one of these stunts.

Pretty soon, she's going to figure out that something's going on; if she hasn't already.

Sometimes I wonder; there's no way she can be that blind, it's obvious even to me, and I'm a novice at this relationship stuff.

I feel so torn lately, the father who I loved and adored my whole life, has become a stranger. Ever since mom gave birth to twins and one of them was a stillborn son.

It was subtle at first, the differences. First were the late nights when before he couldn't wait to get home to us.

Then came the avoidance, where it got so I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen them both in the same room together.

Even their friends envied their closeness once. The