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CAROLINE
I knew who'd sent the box. It could only be Mrs. Bidwell as she was the only person who knew where I'd gone. I had no family and my friends--acquaintances really--never knew of my departure. I, myself, had only known of it for a few days.
Positioned on Finn's lap as I was, I couldn't just walk off and open it in private. Nothing was private between us. After what he did to me in the barn, there were no secrets.
But...there were. I had secrets from him I couldn't share. Secrets so dark, so bad that I couldn't utter the words aloud. Because I couldn't share with him, couldn't bare my soul, the it would always come between us. It would be like an invisible wall that separated us. Without the revelation, we could never truly be together.
He waited patiently, sitting and lookin
