DECEPTION AND LIES

ings come

me just

o deep, when your heart is already tangled

n't sure which

Nia said Caleb was lying, s

she couldn

this

HAT CHANGE

ean, you thin

bed; the phone pressed to

rt was

she hadn't asked what about? hadn't said

o

ing in her gut

end of the line, I mean it,

ked. "Yo

ot curious. The way you talk about him, the way this whole t

d; her mouth

ay.

efully, so cautiously, sent

his name, nothing, Sinclair & Holt? It's real, but he's not on

tomach

small, that doesn't make se

he way Caleb had changed the subject before she cou

e knew he

second she had let

softened, co

ing's off, and I think you should fin

terrib

h

with him

haled

, because he was texting her while she was on the ph

the scaries

HE DIDN'T

g her phone down on

ime, she jus

the knowledge that Nia had done some

him and as

hell she was re

ting right in front of her,

didn't

f knowing ruin

ng question shattered

ne buzz

have to look to

e in an hour. You s

omach

use

ted to

m at dinner, hear his voice, pre

that the wh

lready pr

ath, forcing hersel

abbed her phone and

eet somewhere

ONFRO

quiet when

n on purpose somewhere open,

elt like she was

at a table near the railing, watchi

s sleeves rolled up, and when he saw her

her forget herself but sh

fingers gripping the stem of her

asked, watchin

lem, he was always wa

he was thinking, like he al

e said, her voice steady despite

d smoothly, leani

inha

, why did yo

't change, what are

witched against the tabl

he sa

ngs there, but you don

le

irst time sin

looked

cked, no

. calc

s deciding

ed, rubbing a ha

n't lie to me a

flickered

lowly h

re," he admitted

isted. "Then w

ld he

same infuriati

u. I run a

nd of bu

kind I don't talk ab

she knew she wasn'

toni

not