"I'm not lying, ma… I…I had to. My hands were tied, ma."
"Oh, God. What a mess…Gauri love, please calm down, honey," Garner said to his wife, who was already hyperventilating. Gauri was an intense yet fragile woman. Her heart could always take so little, and right now, they needed to make sure she was okay before they got to lose her.
"How could you? They were my friends…I could have taken care of their children if you had just told me what was happening. Oh, God. No wonder Lia hated it when anyone talked about her family. All this while.
The torture. That poor kid. My Melissa…oh dear Jeremiah. How could you! How could you ruin lives just like, that?" Gauri cried as she looked at Ryan. She didn't recognize him anymore. This was not the boy she had loved over the years. This was a stranger.
Whatever had happened to him, she didn't know who he was.
