Chapter 8 The Lies We Tell
The car door shut with a heavy thud that made me jump.
Mom didn’t say a word as she started the engine. Her hands were shaking slightly on the steering wheel. I stared at her profile, trying to read her face, but she kept her eyes fixed straight ahead like the road might disappear if she blinked.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The First Sin
2. Chapter 2 Dangerous Proximity
3. Chapter 3 Birthday in the House of God
4. Chapter 4 Stained on My Birthday
5. Chapter 5 Secrets and Shadows
6. Chapter 6 Caught in the Web
7. Chapter 7 Something Big Was Coming
8. Chapter 8 The Lies We Tell
9. Chapter 9 Falling
10. Chapter 10 The Knock
11. Chapter 11 The Midnight Visitor
12. Chapter 12 Price of Sin; and More Risks
13. Chapter 13 The Mask Slips
14. Chapter 14 Cornered
15. Chapter 15 The Confession
16. Chapter 16 First Day Gone Wrong
17. Chapter 17 Another New Side of Him
18. Chapter 18 The Words I Can't Say
19. Chapter 19 I Had To Let It Out
20. Chapter 20 The Home Visit
21. Chapter 21 Wasn't Ready For It
22. Chapter 22 Rehearsal for Ruin
23. Chapter 23 The Photograph
24. Chapter 24 Coming Storm
25. Chapter 25 The Purity Ball Pt I — Beginning
26. Chapter 26 Purity Ball Pt II— Where It All Started
27. Chapter 27 Purity Ball Pt III— Purity Is Obedience
28. Chapter 28 Purity Ball Pt IV— The Noose Tightens
29. Chapter 29 Purity Ball Pt V— Exposed
30. Chapter 30 Purity Ball Pt VI— The Mask and the Monster
31. Chapter 31 The Purity Ball Pt VII— the Parking Lot
32. Chapter 32 Purity Ball Pt VIII— The Scholarship Offer
33. Chapter 33 Known Faces
34. Chapter 34 The Space Between
35. Chapter 35 Cold
36. Chapter 36 The Devil's Holiday
37. Chapter 37 Drunk
38. Chapter 38 One Plus One
39. Chapter 39 Red
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