Chapter 53

"Mom did," he interrupts me. "Even after everything Dad did to her, she still found a way to forgive him. And in my opinion —not that it matters to you right now— forgiving someone for doing the things that Dad did to Mom is much worse than keeping life changing information from you for two years." There's a moment of silence that consists of me staring at Rowan and him staring back at me, trying to drill his words into my head. "All I'm saying is that if Mom can forgive and forget, so can you." Rowan grabs his now empty mug and goes around the island and to the sink, putting the mug in the sink and going back upstairs and to his room without another word. He and I both know that I wasn't going to take time to understand Evan's side of the whole situation because it isn't about him. It's about me and the information that he was keeping from me for the two years he knew about it. It might not be as bad as everything Oscar had done to my mother, but comparing the two drastic