A Bitter Awakening

Elise jumped and spun around to look.

Declan?

Why was he back?

Declan glanced at her. There was still a half-eaten potato chip clinging to her lip, and her eyes were wide with panic, like a student caught by the hall monitor.

He bent down to change his shoes. "Doing some... research?" he asked with a hint of a smirk.

"What?"

It wasn't until then that Elise realized the movie she'd been playing had