“I know.”
“I never asked you to show them the old house.”
“I know.”
“Then why did you think you needed to hide me?”
She wiped her face.
“Because I wanted to fit in.”
I stood for a moment.
Then said:
“You made me the thing you had to remove.”
Lauren looked down.
“Yes.”
That admission was more painful than any excuse would have been.
Ethan finally spoke.
“I should have understood sooner that something was wrong.”