Chapter 97

Vera

The first thing I learn about public humiliation is that you wake up to it.

I wake up at 6:12am to my phone buzzing nonstop on my nightstand.

It's not ringing.

It’s just buzzing.

Relentlessly.

For a second I forget where I am. I'm in sheets with grey winter light coming in. Declan is beside me awake and sitting up wearing reading glasses and holding his phone.

His face tells me everything bef