Chapter 4

I said, "Explain where the condoms in your place came from? Or explain how you said you were going to a friend's place that night, but you were actually hooking up with someone else?

"Or maybe explain why you kept making up excuses to move just so you could live across from her?"

"Or let's go even further back. Explain the necklace around your neck, the photos on your phone, the Polaroids you took together, or the scent of gardenias on your graduation gown..."

I choked up, my eyes red as I looked at him.

"Emmitt," I said, "what exactly…