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The hot water burns my skin, but I barely react. I’m too numb. I just want it all to go away. I want to silence these voices screaming in my head—that damnbeepringing in my mind, day in and day out.
So I do just that.
The moment the tub is full, I turn off the water. Sliding deeper into the bathtub, I tilt my head back, closing my eyes.
It’s going to be okay, baby girl,my mom’s last words ring in my mind, making more tears fall down.
She was wrong though.
Nothing is okay.
Nothing will ever be okay.
She’s gone, and she’s never coming back.
Gone, gone, gone.
I sink under the water, letting the darkness swallow me whole.
And then?
Then I scream.
CHAPTERONE
PRESCOTT
You know that moment when you think everything is finally going well, and for a split second, you let yourself believe that this could actually be your life.
You hope.
You hope, and then life shows you just exactly how wrong you are. It smacks you in the head when you least expect it, and nothing will ever be the same again.
That’s how it feels as I stare at Jade’s tear-stained face.
My ears are buzzing, those three words ringing in my mind on repeat.
I have cancer.
The words I never expected to hear again.
I have cancer.
The words that already wrecked my life once.
I have cancer.
Those blue eyes are big and red-rimmed as they stare at me, her hand covering her mouth as she tries to hold in her sobs.
“Prescott, I’m so so—” Jade reaches for me, but I step back like she will burn me if I allow her to touch me.
“You knew,” I whisper, the accusation evident in my voice. “All this time. You knew.”
“I’m sorry!”
I shake my head, not believing her words. “Youknew.”
She knew about Gabriel. She knew what had happened, and still.Still, she kept this from me. She let me…
