How do you come to terms with everything that you had known about your life being a lie? Not quickly or easily. Emma supposed that not everything about her life had been a lie, just the bedrock. So many of her life choices were made with the erroneous assumption that Devi and Tom’s ‘big love’ was to blame for her shitty childhood. Now she was forced to look at it differently and the foundation she’d built her life on was no longer stable, but flawed.

On top of that ground-shaking revelation was the very real heartache she was suffering because she missed Jake. It had been two weeks since that...