Megan POV

“Please,” Ben says, with a particular pleading that I’ve never heard before, “we’re all each other has left. Please don’t blame us for what our parents did. They aren’t influences in our life anymore. We aren’t them.”

I almost came out of my seat to attack him for that comment. How dare he say something like that about our parents? He’s making it sound like they did something wrong. When I know they haven’t done anything wrong. How could he sell them out like that?

The tone of his voice stops me, though. Ben is apprehensive. He’s vulnerable right now. It wasn’t easy for him to say that....