The Conditions of Will

The Conditions of Will

Author: Jessa Hastings Listening Length: 13h 21m
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I cant remember the last time I couldnt get a handle on myself and my emotions, but the lid is slipping. Something about the slipping lid feels like its Sam Pennys fault. Like he broke the seal and hes slowly opening me up. London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie detector and body-language savant, has long been e...

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There was one time when we were younger—not long before they sent me away, actually—when Oliver and this boy from our school, Louis Janson, ran away for the weekend together.

Neither of them were out of the closet, but they had a weird cover story and everything in case they got caught. And here’s the sort of weird world that we live in: instead of telling our parents that they needed to go away for something to do with a school project, they decided to skip town without telling anyone (except me), and if they got caught (which they would and they did), then they’d lie and say they drove to Atlanta to meet up with a couple of girls they met online.

I got home from the library that Saturday evening, and you know how sometimes you walk into a place and you can just feel it? I walked into the house and it hit me in a single second…this weird tension.

My dad was away, I don’t know where—that wasn’t crazy unusual—but there was a man standing in our kitchen. Louis Janson’s father. He had a dark look about him.