The Distraction

~DONOVAN’S POV~

She doesn’t know I saw her watching me.

Or maybe she does.

Valerie thinks she’s quiet. Tucking her chin down, shifting her eyes away just in time. But I’m not a stranger to hiding. I know what it looks like when someone is trying not to feel something.

And right now, she’s doing a shit job pretending.

She’s trying to clean. Wiping down the same corner of the banister for the last t