The real shooter!

Chapter six!

"I was on my way to confront you that night. I was so mad at you and yes I shot you!" Liam still doesn't want to believe what his little brother is saying, he grabs him.

"Why did you do that? How could you? What's gotten into you?" Wyatt tears away and looks deep into his father's eyes.

"The truth is; I hate you! I despise you for the way you played your sick games with the women I truly loved. Steffy meant so much to me and you used her! You wanted her and you took advantage of a weak moment to take her, regardless of all consequences. You pursued Steffy and you betrayed Katie, your wife who loved you more than anything, who trusted you and relied on you. I had strong feelings for Katie back then, but she only had eyes for you, even though you didn't deserve her at all! All you ever did was lie and manipulate her! I wanted so much for you to feel the consequences of your behavior just once! I knew about the second gun in your safe, I took it in an unobserved moment. That night I went to your house...then I saw Taylor going inside…I followed her...she picked up the gun and for a brief moment I hoped she would do it! That she would shoot you, but she just stood there, with the gun in her hand...so I knew it was my turn to do it! I stepped forward….pulled out the gun…and fired!" 

Steffy jumps at him, punching him furiously.

"And then you just ran away and didn't say anything all these years! You let us all think my Mom did it, she even was convinced herself, she had done it! You stood by the whole time and didn't come forward! Why?? How could you be so cruel?! She went through hell because of you, she almost drove herself crazy and because of that she left town and wasn't with her family for so many years! You deprived Douglas, Kelly and Hayes of their grandmother! This is so disgusting! I hate you!"

She lashes out and hits him over and over again, until Finn finally pulls her away from him. Wyatt stands there like a picture of misery.

"I'm really sorry! I can't tell how much I regret all of it! Taylor, I never meant for you to be blamed! I know I should have told the truth much sooner, but I was terrified of losing everything!"

"And what about me?" Liam yells at his brother. "You know very well that for a short while I thought it was me. I confided in you, you saw my struggle and that I had a really hard time dealing with this. You could have ended my insecurity and distress with one sentence. But you kept your mouth shut!"

"I know and I am truly sorry! I was a coward….I just couldn't bring myself to turn myself in. I waited for the right moment and put the gun back into the safe. As soon as I started with the secrecy I couldn't find a way out!"

"How could you look us in the eye all this time?"

"I blocked it out and in the end I came to the conviction it was Taylor who pulled the trigger! I couldn't bear the fact that I almost killed my own father so I tried everything to convince myself I didnt do it"

There is sheer horror on everyone's face, they all don't know how to deal with Wyatt's confession.