“I can’t right now,” she said quickly, her voice coming out sharper than she intended. “I’m... I’m out of town with Julian for a business trip.”
There was a sharp intake of breath on the other end of the line. Ethan didn’t speak for a moment, and when he finally did, his words were heavy with emotion. “You’re with him, aren’t you? Julian?”
Lexi closed her eyes, her hand tightening around the phone. She didn’t want to hear this. She didn’t want to be faced with the reality of what she was doing. What they were doing. But there was no avoiding it anymore.
“I’m not... I’m not with him like that,” she lied, but even as she said it, she could hear the doubt in her own voice. “It’s just business.”
Ethan didn’t say anything for a long while. The silence hung in the air like a thick fog, and L
