LENA'S POINT OF VIEW

Silence filled the room.

The letter was still in my hand, but I could no longer feel it. My fingers had gone numb sometime between reading the first line and understanding the second.

Ask Caleb what I said to him before he rejected you.

Slowly... very slowly... I raised my head and looked at him.

Caleb hadn't moved. But his face had turned completely pale. As if the past had reached out and grabbed him by the throat.

"What did he say to you?" I asked in a low voice.

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