Real Talk

"Lily wasn't a ‘little girl’ to us, Dad," I clarify as he goes to the mini bar to pour himself another drink. He hardly ever drinks, so he must really be going through it, "She was a girl our age, a pretty one, it was as simple as that. It was your mistake to assume nothing would happen, honestly.”

His shoulders get tense and he takes a few seconds to drink before turning to me.

"You threw a pretty girl to the wolves and fucked off to live in eternal honeymoon with her mom," I continue, because that's the truth, even if it makes him wince, "Berenice is even more at fault for neglecting Lily so much, but it is what it is. This is old news. The past is the past.”

"Berenice has been punishing me for what Damon did to Lily this whole time, as if I had a fucking clue," he growls and shakes his head, "This is not as simple as ‘the past is the past’, Aiden. I've been living in a sea of lies and secrets for a whole decade. Everyone hid things from me. Even you.”

"I had no fucking clu