Liberate You, Liberate Me✔️

Chapter 35

35. No Matter the Cost

After an absolutely incredible date with Dillon, Libra had gone home and  gossiped with Sophia and Jack before Jack headed back downstairs to his place. As soon as Jack had left Sophia turned to Libra with a stern face and asked her to spill the beans about the meeting with Todd and Laura. It wasn't until Sophia brought that up that Libra snapped back to reality again and she remembered the weird text message she'd received while on her date.

While in the best kiss of her life she had received a message and a missed phone call from someone she hadn't spoken to since her first day in high school – Tim Duncan. She knew he had spoken to Todd and Laura and perhaps they had urged him to call Libra to confirm what they'd said. She hated herself for lying to Dillon about it, especially since she didn't do a very good job at keeping her poker face. Tim had written:

Hey Libra,

Long time no see I guess. When you have time, give me a call. I think you know what it's about.
/Tim Duncan (from high school)

She showed the message to Sophia who looked at his for a long time before handing the phone back to her and shaking her head softly.

"What happened with Todd and Laura? Did they tell Tim to call you?" Sophia asked.

"Not that I know of, but they told me that he'd reached out to Tim and that he'd said that Dillon's parents had showed up to the police station and the day after the police stopped visiting Dillon and Charlie, thus eliminating them as suspects." When Libra said those words out loud she felt cold inside.

She wondered if it was all true and if Dillon knew that his parents had saved him like that. But that had to mean that he and Charlie truly were guilty and the thought of that was hard to accept. Then there was the suspicion on why Tim was talking to Todd or why he was talking to anyone at all about this. Granted; he wasn't really Dillon and Charlie's closest friend and she'd never heard Dillon mention Tim since they arrived here but they were friends enough for Tim to have his back – that she was sure of.

"This is all such a fucking mess! You and Dillon are practically boyfriend and girlfriend but he could also be the guy who locked you in that shed? Do you think you could...ever forgive him?"

That was a question she didn't want to think about at all. So she simply shrugged her shoulders and waved it all away, not ready to deal with a decision like that now. Especially since her heart had started to permanently accept the joy it felt when Dillon Holden was around.

"Well are you going to call Tim Duncan and see what he has to say?" Sophia asked instead, a little annoyed not to have her previous question answered.

"If I do that I'd have to keep another lie from Dillon and I'm not sure I want to do that." Libra mumbled.

She could hear Sophia's groan even though it wasn't loud. Libra also knew why she was groaning like that; she was disappointed in her best friend for not committing to this. In their support group Dr. Fine had warned them all for this feeling: settling in to be the victim. He'd said that it would be common to find comfort in being the victim and that their perpetrator could make them feel deserving of that role – Libra had promised her mother not to be one of those people.