No shit. "She has a right to know, and you should've been the one to tell her back when it happened."

"What good would knowing do her?

"Well, it would ease my conscience for one," I snapped. "Carrying around this secret has all but ruined my life." When he didn’t respond, I threw my hands up, beyond frustrated. "I want a relationship with her. I can't do that when I'm keeping a fucking secret from her!"

"You'll ruin her. You won't mean to, but you will. My little girl is a survivor, but she can’t deal with another blow. There's only so much one person can take," her father's words cut me deep and I flinched. "If you love her at all, then walk away. Go off to college next year and forget about her. For Molly's sake…"

For Molly's sake.

For the good of his daughter.

Like I hadn't spent half my life doing exactly that.

"Your daughter is stronger than you give her credit for," I countered angrily. Screw anger, I was so hot I could taste it. "She is also an adult now, not a child. Whether I'm in her life or not, she deserves to know the truth about that night."

Mr. Peterson sighed, like he knew this was the answer I would give him. "Daryl –"

"Molly deserves to know who set the fire!"

Thank you so much for reading Waiting Game!

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Truth Game, Ocean Bay #3,

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Other Books by Chloe Walsh

The Pocket Series:

Pocketful of Blame – Pocket #1

Pocketful of Shame – Pocket #2

Pocketful of You – Pocket #3

Pocketful of Us – Pocket #4

Ocean Bay Series:

Endgame – Ocean Bay #1

Waiting Game – Ocean Bay #2

Truth Game – Ocean Bay #3

The Faking it Series:

Off Limits – Faking it #1

Off the Cards – Faking it #2

Off the Hook – Faking it #3

The Broken Series:

Break my Fall – Broken #1

Fall to Pieces – Broken #2

Fall on Me – Broken #3

Forever we Fall – Broken #4

The Carter Kids Series:

Treacherous – Carter Kids #1

Always – Carter Kids #1.5

Thorn – Carter Kids #2

Tame – Carter Kids #3

Torment – Carter Kids #4

Inevitable – Carter Kids #5

Altered – Carter Kids #6

The DiMarco Dynasty:

DiMarco’s Secret Love Child: Part One

DiMarco’s Secret Love Child: Part Two

The Blurred Lines Duet:

Blurring Lines – Book One

Never Let me Go – Book Two

Boys of Tommen:

Binding 13 – Boys of Tommen #1

Keeping 13 – Boys of Tommen #2

Crellids:

The Bastard Prince

Other titles:

Seven Sleepless Nights

Audiobooks

Titles Available as Audiobooks:

Treacherous – Carter Kids #1

Thorn – Carter Kids #2

Tame – Carter Kids #3

Binding 13 – Boys of Tommen #1 (Part One)

Binding 13 – Boys of Tommen #1 (Part Two)

Keeping 13 – Boys of Tommen (Part One)