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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.”
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
hungry,
stand there like an
in.” I’m the one to step toward
hand.
slides his fingers between mine immediately, grasping on
did I ever doubt
mutters in the back of my
don’t think they matter
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I have to stifle a laugh when he
me, I let our linked hands fall between us. Selene scoots into the corner of the couch with a little side–eye, but she gives
you doing
widen at the blunt honestly coming out
watches me with concern. Probably because of how happy I sound while admitting to not doing
be concerned, too. Hell, I
reminds me, and I stiffen.
Shit.
when I’ve eaten Fae food.
Sister Miriam said?
even as my mouth
over Lisa being
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everything. I have
out of mine. The force of his glare is intense, causing my heart to
the fuck are you?
but his
his grip on my face just
I
doesn’t talk like this. She doesn’t trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are you? What did
his words, and Selene
talking like this out of my own. will. I am, for the
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no filter.”
face fades to confusion. “How
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