“So you say,” she scoffed. “But I can’t believe anything you say, can I? Or Jonathan and Martha, apparently, because they lied too!”
“You’re right,” Clark said, and now the chill of the air, climbing up from his spine to enter his throat, had taken root in his voice, freezing it and turning it bleak and barren. “I guess lying is only acceptable when you do it.”
Wow. Wow. This exchange, after you'd built up to it, just hit me hard. The truth is out there between them now, but there's a whole lot of bitterness.
You're capturing everything wonderfully. Excellent. Outstanding. /running out of adjectives here/
Post more soon!
