Covered By The Lie

He nodded. "Dylan should have told her in advance. Later, she got very close to my mother, and it seemed that she didn't know about it."

I wanted to laugh, so in the whole thing, I was the only one who didn't know.

"Ha!" I wanted to laugh, but I couldn't. I seemed to be a complete fool. I was afraid that I wouldn't know it even if I was sold one day.

Seeing that I didn't look well, Alfred paused for a moment. Perhaps he realized something, he calmed down a little and looked at me with some distress. "Don't think too much. No one told you about this because they were worried that you would think too much, and no one was sure, so..."

"So, do you think I should be kept in the dark like a fool?" I said, feeling uncomfortable.

He frowned. "Lacey, you know that's not what I mean."

"I don't know!" I replied. As soon as I got out of the break room, I thought that as long as I was kind enough and trusted others, I would not suffer much harm. But I was too naive and had to suffer a lot.