Uncovered Secrets

~VALERIE~

The café tastes like backstabbing and burnt coffee.

I watch Leo tear down his chocolate cake, his small fingers sticky with frosting, and try to ignore the way my phone keeps buzzing against the table.

Donovan's name flashes across the screen for the third time in ten minutes.

‘Miss you already. How's the park?’

The lie sits in my throat like poison. I had looked him straight in the eye