DECEPTION AND LIES

unravel in d

racks so easily, so quietly, that

n, a moment that should mean

aleb Sinclair'

bvious, they w

t to last, and the worst part is that

THAT FEL

ng she notice

waist, the solid weight of

sunlight creeping through her blind

y, half-aware that someth

hat meant something was changing, somet

to sit up, but Caleb's grip

oing?" His voice was thick w

and u

slipped from h

neck, lazy and unbother

ing at him for the first time

that alway

he wat

ctation-but with something slo

as memori

trying to fi

uld have qu

r of unease in her chest, that feeling

et herself sink."S

help her

FIRS

in a lie never f

l moment, a sentence

ed in the

r in an old T-shirt that wasn't hers, when Ca

just stay sti

his coffee, handed him

at

over the rim of

y to

ed. "Me

r w

or

ow. "Still bein

. "You

lerat

coffee. And the

hings at Sin

blin

he way he said it

she rea

b didn't wor

ver once mentione

ds left his mouth, his bod

ment, she shou

her eyes, and said, that's interesting, be

re she c

anged th

directing her like it

nd," he said, setting his mug down. "Di

ke that-she

looking at her

icker of doubt than it was to pull at

he sm

er second mist