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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.”
not hungry,” I’m quick to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to it. “You can get it if you’re hungry
hungry,
continues to stand there like an awkward teenager,
the one to step toward him,
hand.
fingers between mine immediately, grasping on
ever doubt this
Selene mutters in the back of
don’t think they matter to
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to stifle a laugh when he stands there, not
into the corner of the couch with a
doing
answer cheerfully, and my eyes widen at the blunt honestly
watches me with concern. Probably because of how happy I sound while admitting
be concerned, too. Hell, I am
me,
Shit.
any untruths when I’ve eaten Fae
that what Sister Miriam
groan internally even
horribly guilty over Lisa being
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my fault. I talked to Sister Miriam behind your back, and didn’t tell you everything. I have too many secrets and don’t know how to begin explaining them all
hand out of mine. The force of his
the fuck are you?
Ava,” I try to say, but his hand
he loosens his grip on my face just
I
Ava doesn’t talk like this. She doesn’t trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are
growl to his words, and Selene
I am, for the time being, unable to lie.” Scowling, I
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no filter.”
his face fades
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