ly, with Ethan as her unwitting

r main house, a scarf here, a lipstick t

in earshot, boasting about expensive gifts, romantic dinne

ued his charade of the g

taged another pub

om of our estate, a room usually

and, his back already laced with angry red welts. His secur

his voice strained. "For every lo

ck again and again, a horrifyingly per

y expression

the faint lipstick smudges I' d seen on his c

me anymore. My emotional

elaborate play, and I was no long

n ticked silently in m