“I don’t care who he is. I’d like to believe that if I ever get that scholarship it’s because I’ve worked my ass off and that I deserve it and not because the CEO likes me”

“Fine so when are you going to know the result then?” Dylan said then put the magazine in the magazine rack

“Next week”

“When are you going back to Austin?”

“After I got the result”

“Have you already talked to Tina?”

“Not yet I’m planning of calling her tonight before going to bed”

“Okay, so you’re free tomorrow right?”

“Yup”

“What are your plans then?”

Bette smiled which intrigued Dylan “Well I’ve talked this morning to the owner of the space that we are planning of renting for our bakeshop and he said that the papers are ready for us to sign to make everything official”

Dylan’s eyes grew wide “Oh my God really?”

“Yes so tell Gladys that she should make herself available tomorrow so we can signed those papers and we can start fixing the place and we can start buying the things that we needed” the brunette said excitedly

“Consider that done!”

+++

 It was the question that Frank had been dreading to hear and the question he hoped to bring to his grave but with those hazel eyes looking at him now pleading, wanting to know the truth he knew he needed to tell her. She deserved to know the truth.

“I knew you are going to ask me that question”

“The morning after that night in the woods I was so surprised when daddy told me that Veronica left and that I won’t see her anymore. I was happy that she won’t be able to touch me anymore yet I still had that lingering fear inside of me that one day she’ll show up again and do those dirty things to me”

“I’m so sorry that I didn’t tell you that you didn’t have any reason to fear Veronica because she couldn’t do you any harm anymore but at the time that was the logical and the right thing to do. You were so young and you wouldn’t understand”

Tina furrowed her brows “What do you mean? What really happened to her?”

Frank took a deep breath, and silently asked for his late friend’s forgiveness

“Veronica died that same night after we found you sleeping in the woods… your father killed her”

to be continued…