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Charlotte's Truth

A long silence ensues. Halsey is nervous while Lincoln tries to process her revelation. Charlotte approaches her son.

“I’m sorry you had to find out this way,” she says gently. “But Halsey is really happy and she didn’t want to hurt you either. So she was waiting for the right time to tell you-”

“You knew?” Lincoln whispers. “You knew about this?”

Charlotte purses her lips. Halsey isn’t sure why but her hands are shaking and she recalls how Lincoln hit her with the ball when he was angry. Then she shrugs the thought away.

That was an accident, she tells herself. He won’t hurt any of us.

Lincoln doesn’t say anything for a while. For a moment, Charlotte and Halsey are relieved but in the next second, he picks up a glass and smashes it against a wall.

Both the women are shocked and startled. Lincoln’s eyes are filled with a fury which they’ve never seen before. Even Charlotte is scared of her son’s reaction and she instinctively reaches out for Halsey as if shielding her.

“You two
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Hailey I’m afraid it will only get worse :(
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