Another World Today #274: When Even the Secret is a Lie
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“I have decided, Rachel – I have decided to terminate my appeals process. Rather than fight the charges against me, I will meekly accept my punishment and serve out my time. I will die in prison. Perhaps that will, at long last, quiet the jackals calling for my blood.”
“Carl!” Rachel exclaimed. “No! You can’t! You have a good case. You can beat this. Well, some of it, anyway. It doesn’t have to be a life sentence!”
“And expose you to the hell of endless trials, the media coverage, the unending repetition of my sins, real and imagined, the public scrutiny, the scorn, the condemnation? No. I cannot do this to you any longer. I will not.”
“I can take it,” she swore.
“Alas, I cannot take watching you try.”
“So you’re just – what? – giving up?”
“Yes,” he said. “There is an American aphorism about giving the
public what it wants. The public has made it most clear that what they
want above all is my head on a platter. If we do not give it to them
now, they will simply keep coming at me over and over, fangs bared. It
is my duty as your husband to shield you from that.”
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Carl makes a Rachel a promise that may destroy them both to keep, Cory and Charlie reach a bizarre understanding, Morgan makes Amanda an offer, Frankie attempts to make Allie see things her way, Lila lets Jasmine in on a secret, and Dennis and Olivia come face to face with the last person they expected.
What do you do when even your secrets are lies? Find out at: http://www.anotherworldtoday.com/2014/2014_274.html