C196 Tell me this is not the truth

The crowd’s whispers grew louder and louder.

Amara couldn’t help but feel her heart beating like some thunderstorm in her chest. And she felt like her instincts screaming at her to intervene, to speak, to stop all of this. But her legs felt frozen, and her breath felt caught between admitting Rowan was really Vaughn’s father, and her fear, what will happen afterwards