Chapter Sixty Four

LARA

“He was busy. He couldn't make it." The lie came out of my mouth so easily, I nearly believed it too. But just one look at my mother told me she didn't believe a word of it.

Her eyes narrowed, their edge as sharp as always. "You didn't even ask him, did you?"

I faltered. My mouth opened, but the words stumbled. “I did—”

She cut me off with that same look mothers master from the day their chil