#Chapter Forty-Four
"You nasty hypocrite! You're fucking your school guidance counsellor!" Kitty's mother shouted at her.
"No," Kitty lied. "I'm not. I don't know why you think that."
"You think I don't know how lust looks?"
"So what if I'm sleeping with him? I am of age."
Her mother scoffed. "You're telling me you guys had sex after you turned 18? As if I'm going to believe that."
"We had sex when the clock struck midnight," Kitty said. "On my birthday."
"Let's see if a jury is going to believe that," her mother said, laughing. "And you dare to judge me."
"What I have with Gunner is very different from what you did. He waited for me, you and Dad couldn't be bothered to wait. I thought better of the two of you."
"Don't act so high and mighty, you're as twisted as we are. Don't tell anyone about what I did, you better promise me that."
"Why should I? What are you going to do?"
"Oh, Kitty, Kitty," her mother laughed. "What do you think will happen to your sweet school guidance counsellor when the entire town hears about how he is fucking you? He will lose everything, and you don't want that, do you?"
Kitty stared at her mother in horror. She hated it but she was right.
"I'll have your promise now," her mother grinned.
Kitty waited, dread filling her. "I promise you."