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Seeing my hesitation, he started to say, "Talie, we're not supposed to keep anything from each other. Spill the truth, what is going on?"

No matter how hard I tried, Riggs' words just kept playing in my head about how he had told me to keep this secret.

I didn't want to betray him a second time.

"I cant tell you," i eventually said, deciding that I was not going to lie to him.

"Does this have anything to do with the person that attacked you and your mum earlier?"

"I really can't say much," i said in a low voice and quickly added, "but I need you to trust me. Once I figure this out, I promise I'll tell you everything."

"I would hope that I would be the number one person you could trust."

I closed the distance between us and put my arms around his neck. "And you are, I swear you are, but I just... this is something I need to figure out on my own."

I was expecting some pressure, something to force me to talk until I spilled, but surprisingly he didn’t do anything. He put one arm around m