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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.”
to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to it.
hungry,
Lucas continues to stand there like an awkward teenager,
the one to step
hand.
between mine immediately, grasping on like he never wants
I ever
Selene mutters in the back
don’t think they
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to the couch like a puppy, and I have to stifle a laugh
I let our linked hands fall between us. Selene scoots into the corner of the couch with a little side–eye, but she gives a slight tail
doing
at all,” I answer cheerfully, and my eyes widen at the blunt honestly coming out of
of how happy I sound while
too. Hell, I
me, and
Shit.
untruths when
what Sister Miriam
groan internally even as my mouth
over Lisa
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behind your back, and didn’t tell you everything. I have
his hand out of mine. The force of his glare is intense, causing my heart to thump wildly in my chest.
are
try to say, but his hand muffles the
and he loosens his
Ava,” I say again.
She doesn’t trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are you? What did you do
his words, and Selene air snaps in his
“I’m not talking like this out of my own. will. I am, for the time being,
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no filter.”
face fades
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