My Liar, My Love
“Not…not until she was older—walking, talking when she shouldn’t, hitting milestones too early. By then, you’d already been so in love with her, I didn’t want t—”
“You’ve been lying to me this whole time. You—you—were you just waiting for the right moment to make a meal of me? Turn me into a monster, too? Is Valerie just another one of your lies? A demon from her mother’s womb?”
“Jerry, that’s enough!”
“What else have you been lying about? Is your name even Helena?”
Helena looked around the room, her shoulders weighed down by the heat of the conversation and the accusatory questions the man she loved kept throwing at her. She gave another sigh, one laden with resignation and fatigue. “No…no,
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