Chapter 19 - SERENA MEETS RHEA
Serena chose one mediated meeting.
Years later.
No Perrin.
No me.
She told me afterward.
First question:
“When did you stop protecting me?”
Rhea cried.
“After you remembered Kiernan.”
“Why?”
“Because I was already in love with him.”
There.
Not the beginning.
The turning point.
“Did you love me?”
“Yes.”
“You hid me.”
“Yes.”
“Did you think I was too damaged to matter?”
“No.”
“Then?”
Rhea whispered:
“I thought if you came back, everything I had built would disappear.”
Serena nodded.
“That’s what happened.”
Rhea cried harder.
No hug.
Serena asked:
“Why bring Perrin?”
“Because you begged.”
“Then why make him keep it secret?”
“Because I panicked.”
“Why put him in the room?”
“Because he was going to tell Kiernan.”
That answer never improved.
Meeting lasted forty-one minutes.
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No forgiveness declaration.
Serena never saw her again.
