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“I...” Flick was right. She always was. But it didn’t quell the sting of Mom’s betrayal. I think I was more hurt by the fact she’d lied all this time than the fact she’d had an affair.

People had affairs all the time. I didn’t condone it, but she and Kent were adults. They knew what they were doing. Jason and I knowing wouldn’t have changed anything.

But something told me, he was in no rush to forgive his dad.

“And you and Jason, what’s going on there?”

“Yeah, sister.” He appeared out of nowhere. “What is going on there?”

Flick rolled her eyes at him, but he barely looked twice at her.

“Don’t be a dick, Jason.”

His hands went up. “I come in peace.” His eyes flicked over to where Cameron was. “How is he?”

“Why don’t you ask him yourself?” There was no malice in my words. Cameron was right; life was too short. After sitting with him in the hospital waiting room while his mom underwent a life-saving craniotomy, I realized this grudge between me and Jason, the stuff with Thatcher, it didn