Chapter 33

• THERON POV
• Manny’s voice lingered in my head long after the call ended. The truth he'd uncovered or rather, failed to uncover only deepened the pit in my gut. A handful of rumors had been enough to shatter Ami’s life… and kill her father. Manny had tried everything, used every backdoor trick he knew, but still came up empty. No trace of where the lies had begun. That alone told me someone had worked hard deliberately to bury the trail.
• Which only confirmed what I’d already suspected: the rumors had started back in high school.