The Provocative Lie

Nadia

The mocking gleam in Torin’s eyes proved he had exposed my deepest secret. He had laid out the truth in the open, dragging into the light the devotion to Corbin that I had refused to admit to myself for years. Every defensive wall I possessed began to crumble under his insolent stare.

I glared at him, my fingernails biting into my palms until the skin stung. "Have you lost your mind?"

Tor