Chapter 223: Everybody Knows
When Emily had left Derek and his uncle behind in the store. She had not realized just how terrified she had been, until she had looked down at her hands and had realized that they were shaking.
When the shaking had stopped, Emily had taken it to mean that her fear was gone. That she was no longer terrified. Come Friday, she had been too busy making sure that they had not been caught to focus on anything else. And over the weekend when it had been just her and her mother. It had been easy to believe that she was no longer scared.
But it was Monday now, and being in the presence of people who were not her mother, was showing Emily that she was not over the incident.
She was terrified. And a huge percentage of that terror did not come from an external source. Instead, it came from Emily herself. She was the one who was grabbing things that were insignificant, unimportant, and turning them into huge monstrous shadows,
that chased her through the halls of Haven Group. It felt like she was back to being a child in middle school. Like how when you knew a really big secret and you were trying your very best to keep it. It seemed as though the world was conspiring against you. With everybody already talking about it despite the fact that you had never whispered a single thing to anyone.
That was how Emily felt.
It had started in the morning when she had walked into the office.
The very first thing that her eyes had landed on had been a file, and when she had come closer. One word had popped out at her from that file. The word ’found’, and Emily’s mind had instantly run with ’found out’. You and Derek have been found out.
You have been caught, everybody knows. She’d had to blink her eyes several times to clear them. Then when she had looked at the file again, it had read, lost and found, not at all mentioning the secret that she and Derek shared. That should have been it.