Page 202 of Unexpected Heroine

Are you still there?

Lyin’ Snake:

Sugar, it’s okay. You didn’t do anything wrong. I know it was an invasion of your privacy. I knew it then too. As soon as I realized what you were doing, I clicked it off.

Sugar Bear:

Then how did you know what I sounded like when I came if you turned it off?

Lyin’ Snake:

Well, the first time, I shut the camera off so I couldn’t see you, and I turned the volume down low. But I could still hear you.

Sugar Bear:

And you think that makes it okay?

Lyin’ Snake:

No, but I told myself it was because I was worried about you being in that hotel. I needed the volume on low in case something went wrong and you needed help.

Sugar Bear:

You don’t really believe that, do you?

Lyin’ Snake:

It’s amazing the lies we tell ourselves to justify something we want so badly.

Sugar Bear:

Did you um . . . touch yourself while listening?

Lyin’ Snake:

No.

Sugar Bear:

. . .

Lyin’ Snake:

I wanted to. But I wouldn’t do that without your consent. There are some lines I just don’t cross.

Sugar Bear:

I wonder where those lines are.

Lyin’ Snake:

It’s a fair question.

Sugar Bear:

I need to go.

Lyin’ Snake:

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