CHAPTER 59 THE TRUTH MUST BE REVEALED

She chose something at random, unable to summon the energy to care about the food she was ordering. She handed the menu back to the waiter, her hand shaking slightly. The waiter's eyebrows shot up in surprise as Juliet requested five burgers, but he nodded and took her order without comment, his professional demeanor masking any judgment he might have felt. Juliet watched as he disappeared into the kitchen, her mind racing with a thousand thoughts, a thousand fears. "Juliet? Are you still there?" her mother's voice sounded in her ear, insistent and impatient. "I'm here, Mother," Juliet replied, her voice small and strained. "I...I have something to tell you." As Juliet gathered her courage to finally confess the truth to her mother, the universe seemed to conspire against her. Just as the words were about to spill from her lips, the call dropped, the connection severed by the whims of the fickle network. Juliet's eyes widened in shock, her hand still clutching the phone as if it