eaned back into the car, and Ethan watched through a pair of binoculars as Liam kissed Olivia, a long, lingering kiss that was nothing like the chaste pecks she gave him. A private

ad tried to be his friend. He remembered the day she found a woman's earring in Liam's car and he' d laughed it off, convincing her she was being paranoid.

eaking his designs. Olivia had found him drinking alone in a bar. She had listened to him, her eyes full of what he thought was understanding. She told him he was a genius, th

iend. Her voice was light and cruel. "Of course I feel a little bad for him," she' d said, and he heard her laugh. "But he' s so easy. He' s so desperate to be loved. It keeps Lia

his happiness for the past two years, was a calculated fraud. He had stumbled back to his studio, the room spinning. The pain was immense, a physical weight in his chest that made it hard