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151 Ava: The Truth Comes Out (1)
151 Ava: The Truth Comes Out (I)
“Ava?”
Disoriented after returning to Lisa’s apartment, I can only blink as Lucas steps inside, looking concerned.
“Hi.” The greeting feels stilted, but I’m still regaining my bearings.
There’s something about Sister Miriam’s talk about payment that bothers my mind, trying to pry loose some memory–but I shove it aside, needing to focus on the man in front of me.
It’s dark in the apartment, but the TV is still going. Selene shakes herself before heading to the couch, leaving me with the soft impression of her presence in my head.
“You didn’t answer your phone,” Lucas explains,
looking a little awkward as he stands there in the doorway.
“I didn’t hear it.” Now that he’s in front of me, the idea
of telling him everything… Is a lot harder.
It isn’t that I don’t want to, but that it’s just–how do
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you even approach this kind of conversation?
Especially knowing how much responsibility weighs on his shoulders.
But leaving him in the dark isn’t an option.
“I brought dinner.” But his hands are empty, which he only seems to realize at this moment. “Shit. I left it in
the car.”
curdling at the thought of even adding a single
hungry, either.”
there like an awkward teenager, my
to step toward
hand.
slides his fingers between mine immediately, grasping on like he never wants
ever doubt
Selene mutters in the back of my
they matter to
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puppy, and I have to stifle a laugh when he stands there,
beside me, I let our linked hands fall between us. Selene scoots into the corner of the couch with
you doing okay?”
widen at the
me with concern. Probably because of how happy I sound while admitting to not doing well.
too. Hell, I am
Selene reminds me,
Shit.
when I’ve
what Sister Miriam said?
internally even as my mouth takes off without
guilty over Lisa being kidnapped,
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back, and didn’t tell you everything. I have too many secrets and don’t know how to
eyes narrowing as he yanks his hand out of mine. The force of his glare is
the fuck are you?
to say, but his hand
his hand, and he loosens his grip on my
I
Ava doesn’t talk like this. She doesn’t trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are you? What did
words, and Selene air
not talking like this out of my own. will. I am, for the time being, unable to lie.” Scowling, I smack his hand
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no filter.”
in his face fades to confusion. “How is this-”
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