Page 69 of When We Met

I follow her to make sure she doesn’t rat me out. Thankfully she has no conscience that I can tell, and her memory is nonexistent. Although she does tell her sister, “I ates pee.”

Camdyn looks at her little sister with disgust, cookie crumbs on her lips. “Gross.”

“I know,” Sev whispers, chewing on a cookie. “I don’t even like pee.”

Smiling, I nod to Kacy. “Looks like you need tires too.”

Kacy perks up, her stare moving to the shop door. “I do? I thought the back ones were okay.”

“Nope. Flat.” I wink at Sev when she grins and presses my fingers to my lips as Kacy turns her head.

“Okay, well, I’m paying for them.” She hands Lillian her credit card. “I’m trusting you, girl. Charge me.”

Lillian smiles. “Barron, can I talk to you about something?”

She doesn’t give me time to answer before she yanks me into the hall outside the office. And jabs her goddamn finger in my chest. “What are you doing?”

I glare at Lillian and knock her hand away. “Stop doing that,” I growl. “And keep your mouth shut.”

“Hey, I got my own issues.” There’s sadness etched in her face. “Your brother made me a homewrecker.”

I roll my eyes. “That’s a shitty thing to say. Don’t blame him entirely.Youspread your legs for him. That makes you just as guilty.”

“I know, but still….” And then her voice trails off, like there’s a part of this conversation that I’m not privy to.

“Still what?”

“I want to blame him.”

“But you can’t, because it wasn’t like you fell on his dick and put it in your pussy, now, did you?”

She rolls her eyes this time. “You’re disgusting.”

“Lillian?”

“What?”

I press my fingers to my lips, smile, and start to walk away. “It’s our little secret.”

“Wait.” I turn to face her. She’s acting nervous, eyes darting around the hallway. “Tell me one thing and I’ll keep your secret.”

“What?”

“How’d Carly and Morgan act last night at your dad’s?”

Stepping back, I rest my shoulder against the wall and run my hand over my face. “They didn’t talk that I know of, but Morgan was shit-faced on tequila.”

She groans. “That explains the selfie he sent me early this morning of him and Jelly Bean in the barn.”

“Please tell me he wasn’t naked.”

She blinks.

“Goddamn him.”

Lillian leaves, and I hear Kacy’s laughter in the office and immediately smile. This buys me a week, at most. Now I need to think about getting her alone.

I can’t live a lie

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