Exposing the Lies

Wren's POV

A tense, suffocating pause stretched over the speakerphone.

The silence in the grand, arched corridor seemed to thicken with every passing second. The faint, muffled bass of the ballroom music pulsing through the heavy oak doors suddenly felt miles away. Torin stood tall, his jaw set, his phone held out like a weapon he was about to fire point-blank into my chest. He wore a mask of a