Chapter 31 – Before Thanksgiving (Kalenah Conrad POV) Pt.3
"Mom," Brennan calls me. Pleading. Looking away, my back turned to him, I hang my head forward. My breath warms the window, fogging it up.
I follow Ansels' taillights until they're out of my line of sight.
"Mom, I swear I didn't know that there was any danger-"
Whipping to face Brennan, the dissatisfaction of this situation seeps over.
Covers my face.
"You didn't know there was any danger? As though that is the reason you would have come to us?" I ask in complete disbelief.
Brennan was – is – smarter than this.
"Brennan the minute Devin began hacking our systems, you should have came-"
"I didn't see the harm," he whispers in that small voice that he used when he was a young boy.
Except this isn't my young boy.
My baby.
He knew better.
"You were okay with Devin hacking into our computers? Spying on your siblings? That's a gross invasion of privacy, Brennan."
He nods slowly, "I know – but I just... I didn't see the harm at the time," he pleads softly, voice breaking.
The betrayal I felt, not only for the trust we placed in Brennan, but Devin was astounding.
"Devin she doesn't – should wouldn't purposely hurt someone mom-" Brennan begins but with tears in my eyes, and my own anger building, "Brennan!"
"How do you not understand that she was purposely hurting us and you let her..." sure he had to see the bottom line here.
My hand goes to my mouth, shakily as I hold back everything inside me fighting to get out. The bile creeping up my throat, the anger and distress from Brennan's actions.
"I – I know this is just an excuse but I just thought that it was better that she was trying to infiltrate our network than someone elses where she could get caught. She's – I love her," Brennan whispers softly, the words heartfelt. I know him. I also know that my son only had love for Devin.
I was not even placing the blame only at Devin's feet.
She might have invaded our privacy but for nine months Brennan has known she was. At any time he could have come and inform us but-
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